According to Rosstat, in April increased the number of deaths from the coronavirus, but due of the restrictions and decreased mortality for the most common in Russia reasons.
The reduction in mortality in April 2020 in Russia there are several reasons, one of which — the lesser the number of deaths from external causes, says the head of the Department of statistics MIREA Catherine Darda.
“as a Consequence there is a reduction in the number of fatalities from the 1001 person to 768 people,” she says. For the first four months of the year decreased and the number of murders and assaults on them — by 3.8%.
She cited the example of other countries: in Germany the figure was 46 people in the United States — 59 in Belgium — 163.
According to the Professor of the Department of statistics of REU named after G. V. Plekhanov Olga Lebedinsky, any external changes can lead to significant fluctuations in the mortality statistics. At the beginning of 2020, these changes become introduced due epidemic coronavirus limitations. They led to the improvement of statistics on major causes of deaths in Russia.
“a Little, but improved statistics on the mortality of the circulatory. In January 2020, for this reason, died at 7922 less than in January 2019, tumors or minus 1803, respectively,” explained Lebedinskaya.
“In many countries, the absolute mortality rates also exhibit a similar trend. High mortality kompensiruet correction for other reasons,” summed up Lebedinskaya.
13 June, Rosstat published statistics on mortality for January to April of 2020. According to authorities, the death rate in this period fell by 2.9% in comparison with indicators of last year.
So, in April of 2019, died 153,8 thousand people, and in April 2020 — 149,4 thousand In April died 2712 people with COVID-19.
