{"id":117081,"date":"2021-04-03T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117081"},"modified":"2021-04-03T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:28:36","slug":"covid-19-russias-death-toll-as-of-february-crosses-225000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117081","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Russia&#8217;s death toll as of February crosses 225,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/b093d22\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2Fb8%2Fb13a277f9a41b6441ac92f990c76d4%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH310NQ%3A12021-04-02T175536Z_1_LYNXMPEH310NQ_RTROPTP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-RUSSIA.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">A graveyard for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victims on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia has recorded over 225,000 deaths related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic in April, the Rosstat statistics service said on Friday, a figure that is more than double the death toll cited by the government coronavirus task force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statistics, which are reported on a monthly basis and with a lag, covering the period from April 2020 to February 2021, suggest that Russia has the third highest death toll in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 225,572, the total coronavirus-related death toll places Russia third after the United States, which has reported over 553,000 deaths, and Brazil, with over 325,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The figure is also more than double the widely-reported rolling death toll provided by the Russian government&#8217;s coronavirus task force on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That figure is currently at 99,633 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities have said in the past that Rosstat&#8217;s figures are more complete, including data from autopsy reports not available for the daily tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosstat also provided monthly data, saying that 29,493 more people died in February this year than during the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks an increase of 20.6per cent compared with February 2020, the last month to see no cases of coronavirus reported in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total number of excess deaths in February, 24,369 were considered linked to the coronavirus, Rosstat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia recorded its first COVID-19 infection in early March 2020. The total number of cases since then recently crossed the 4.5 million mark. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graveyard for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victims on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia MOSCOW, April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia has recorded over 225,000 deaths related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic in April, the Rosstat statistics service said on Friday, a figure that is more than double the death toll cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}