“There is no such understatement ... At this moment, I don’t see anything so terrible as to say that Russia consciously does not want to report mortality from the coronavirus,” she said on the Russia 24 television channel.
Earlier, State Duma deputy, former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko commented on an article in the Financial Times, which stated that mortality from COVID-19 in the country could be 70% higher than official data. He called this material unprofessional hype.
According to the operational headquarters, during the pandemic in Russia, 2116 people died from the coronavirus.