{"id":76518,"date":"2020-05-30T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76518"},"modified":"2020-05-30T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T04:55:10","slug":"covid-19-russia-reports-record-toll-of-new-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76518","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Russia reports record toll of new deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Russia-reports-record-toll-of-new-virus-deaths.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Russia-reports-record-toll-of-new-virus-deaths.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, May 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia reported a record increase of 232 coronavirus deaths on Friday as Moscow authorities released mortality figures to dispel allegations they were being manipulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials reported a total of 4,374 deaths and 387,623 cases, the<br>third-highest number of infections in the world after the United States and<br>Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New infections were below 9,000 for the sixth day in a row at 8,572 cases,<br>while a total of 159,257 people have recovered, according to an official<br>tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have predicted a higher death toll in May compared to last<br>month, attributing this to deaths among patients who were hospitalised during the peak of the epidemic several weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow \u2014 the worst-hit city in Russia \u2014 reported 2,332 new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials in the capital on Thursday released details of mortality<br>statistics for April in an effort to quash claims they have been under-<br>reporting deaths to play down the scale of the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 636 people died due to the coronavirus in Moscow last month, down from the previously reported toll of 639, health officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow\u2019s health department also reported that 756 people had tested positive for the coronavirus but \u201cdied due to other reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 360 of those cases, the virus exacerbated a patient\u2019s underlying health<br>complications, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of that, 169 cases were confirmed through autopsies, even though<br>patients tested negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said that based on those figures a total of 1,561 people died in<br>the Russian capital in connection with the coronavirus in April, adding the<br>toll was \u201cundoubtedly lower\u201d than the number of fatalities in New York and<br>London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia says its low virus death figures are also down to mass testing which<br>has identified many cases with mild or no symptoms. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, May 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Russia reported a record increase of 232 coronavirus deaths on Friday as Moscow authorities released mortality figures to dispel allegations they were being manipulated. Health officials reported a total of 4,374 deaths and 387,623 cases, thethird-highest number of infections in the world after the United States andBrazil. New infections were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76520,"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\/76518"}],"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=76518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}