“In general, in 2021, mortality increased by 15.9%, while the increase in mortality is associated exclusively with excess mortality from COVID-19,” RIA Novosti quotes Golikova.
According to her, the increase is also associated with the absence of deaths from coronavirus in the first four months of 2020.
Earlier, Denis Protsenko, head physician of infectious diseases hospital No. 40 in the Moscow village of Kommunarka, spoke about the high load on the primary outpatient link due to the spread of the omicron strain of coronavirus.