Last year, the Russian Statistical Office announced that more than 162,000 people died from the new coronavirus.
The death toll is nearly three times higher than what the government's response headquarters announced in January, raising questions about how the Russian government's statistics are taken.
The Russian National Statistical Office announced on the 8th that the number of people who died from infection with the new coronavirus in the last year has reached more than 162,000.
The breakdown is as follows: ▼ 86,000 people died mainly due to infection with the new virus, and ▼ 44,000 people died due to infection although the new virus was not the main cause.
On the other hand, the Russian government's response headquarters said that as of January 1, the number of people who died from infection with the new virus was more than 57,000, and the statistics agency announced three times as many as the government's response headquarters. It is increasing soon.
The Moscow Times, a local English-language newspaper critical of the Putin administration about how to collect statistics from the Russian government, pointed out that "statistically ignoring patients whose main cause of death is not infection with the new virus". There are voices of doubt.