Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #773:TUESDAY February 9, 2021: ‘Russia’s COVID-19 MYSTERY’ from ZUMA Press award winning photographer Sergei Bobylev of TASS.
zReportage.com Story of the Week #773: TUESDAY February 9, 2021: ‘Russia’s COVID-19 MYSTERY’ from ZUMA Press award winning photographer Sergei Bobylev of TASS: Russia’s claims of an extraordinarily low mortality have been widely dismissed as implausible for months by foreign observers and Russian doctors alike. Every other indicator, from packed hospitals with long lines of ambulances to mortality among health workers documented by their own associations, has painted a picture of a country hit hard by the pandemic, not one miraculously spared. Russia’s true death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic is not about 57,000, as official figures claim, but more than 180,000, the country’s deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, conceded. President Putin’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low. Russia, like many countries, is suffering acute economic hardship after weeks of coronavirus lockdown. Amid rising unemployment, there are signs of growing disillusionment with the Kremlin. Welcome to: ‘Russia’s COVID-19 MYSTERY’
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