Russia came out on top in the world in mortality from Covid-19 | 09.11.21
The fourth wave of Covid-19, which struck in the fall of 2021, for the first time in the entire pandemic made Russia the world leader in current deaths.
For the week from 1 to 7 November, according to statistics operational headquarters and according to World Health Organization, 8276 people died from Covid-19 in the country – 338 more than a week earlier.
The record was set on November 4 – 1195 deaths per day. By the end of the week, the figure dropped slightly, to 1188 on Saturday, November 6 and 1179 on Sunday, November 7. But this was not enough to keep the former leader, the United States, in the first place.
In the States over the past week, under according to WHO, 8101 deaths were recorded. Compared to the previous week, the number of deaths fell by 15%, or 1,449 cases.
US deaths have been declining since late September, and their current level is at a two-month low. Moreover, unlike Russia, the American fourth wave did not bring mortality records: the maximum rates – more than 2.5 thousand people per day – were recorded in the third and fourth weeks of September and almost half the January peak, when on some days more than 4.5 thousand died. human.
Even according to the data of the operational headquarters, Russia reached a record mortality rate in the world, Rosstat publishes a stable one per month.
His last data – in September – 39,638 deaths were recorded with an established diagnosis of coronavirus infection (628% more than in the same month a year ago).
This means that an average of 1.3 thousand people per day died from Covid-19, although the headquarters never recorded more than 900 deaths in September.
The situation with the spread of coronavirus remains “very difficult”, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the leadership of the Defense Ministry and the defense industry union on November 1.
“More than forty thousand cases (per day). This has never happened, ”he said, noting the particular importance of combating the pandemic in the army.
“We need dangerous ones so that the servicemen are in the ranks, ready. The combat readiness of the Armed Forces depends on this, ”Putin quotes Interfax…
It is premature to assess the effectiveness of the non-working days regime, which operated in Russia from October 28 to November 7, declared on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “It is too early to draw a conclusion, it will only be clear in about a week,” he said, adding that the full effect can be “somehow realized in a more promising perspective.”