Russia has admitted its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than previously reported — making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities from the pandemic.
Experts have long doubted President Vladimir Putin’s repeated claims of a low death rate from the virus, which he boasted showed Russia was doing a “better” job at managing the crisis than Western countries.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova on Monday finally proved the critics right as she revealed the true death toll was likely 186,000 — not the 55,000 officially reported.
Golikova made the revelation after the Rosstat statistics agency said that deaths between January and November had risen by 229,700 compared to the previous year.
“More than 81 percent of this increase in mortality over this period is due to COVID,” Golikova said, according to Agence France-Presse.
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