Outbreaks of the Russian coronavirus have left China behind, and Vladimir Putin is facing a sharp rise in infections
Russia now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than China, bringing the total to 87,147 cases nationwide.
Russia has confirmed 6,198 additional incidents in the past 24 hours, according to the state-run Tass news agency. Another 50 people were killed in Russia yesterday, bringing the death toll to 794.
Russia's Anti-Coronavirus Crisis Center released new figures Monday, stating that 43.4 percent of newly identified patients are non-communicable. The Crisis Center also said that the daily growth rate in Russia has reached 7.66 percent.
Russia now ranks ninth in the world in confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. China - where the virus originated - ranks tenth with 83,912 confirmed cases and 4,637 deaths, although the international media and other countries have expressed skepticism over the relatively low figures. What is it.
The number of confirmed cases in the country has increased rapidly, effectively doubling in eight days. As of April 19, 42,000 infections had been confirmed in the country, according to WorldMeter. At the end of March, Russia jumped in the infection cases despite imposing strict lockdown measures in most parts of the country.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the government expects the level of Russian affairs to rise in mid-May and fall by June. He told the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper that the Corona virus crisis would ease in "a few months", pointing to countries such as Italy and Spain, where sanctions are now being lifted.
"I repeat that all these hardships will be quickly forgotten," Peskov said, according to Tass. He added that Russians "will then have to work hard in order to reduce the consequences of the pandemic for their life," acknowledging this would be "a challenging period" requiring "a great effort." Still, he said, "Life will return to normal."
Peskov said the government "needs to help citizens" and will "fully control how the decisions are implemented and where there can be some mishaps and failures in the work of mechanisms, where assistance does not reach people."
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