Who can not explain the low mortality from COVID-19 in Russia

the Head of the who programme on emergency health Mike Ryan stated that it was difficult to understand the reason for the low mortality rate of people with coronavirus COVID-19 in Russia.

according to “Interfax”, Ryan called the unusual combination of a significant number of identified cases of coronavirus to the level of mortality from COVID-19 in Russia.

He said that he knows that Russia has a very high level of testing of the population on coronavirus pneumonia, but asked to explain to the government what method they use, informing about the number of deaths.

According to him, in Europe, where mortality from COVID-19 is much higher than in Russia, a similar health care system.

the District said that in some States, may overstate the rate of deaths among patients with coronavirus. He recalled that the who has developed a standard official confirmation of the death, which is granted to each participating country of the organization for needs of certification of fatality among infected COVID-19.

as of 10 June in Russia are infected with coronavirus 493 657 people, has recovered 252 783, died 6358.