According to him, in a number of cities faced with coronavirus, "the excess of mortality over ordinary mortality increased several times."
“We didn’t have this, but nevertheless, May was perhaps the most difficult, it was obvious, because the peak incidence occurred in late April - early May,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He noted that in May a little more than 5.2 thousand people died in Moscow.
"Of these, 2,700 died directly from COVID-19 ... another part died from the fact that COVID-19 provoked chronic diseases - this is about a thousand people, the rest died for other reasons, but they had a test for COVID-19," he added.
Earlier, Sobyanin commented on the mortality rate from coronavirus infection in the capital.
Aleksey Agranovsky, professor at the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, in an interview with the FAN, assessed the need to take precautions after removing the restrictions imposed due to coronavirus.