Topic - Rosstat

, Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)) is the governmental statistics agency in Russia. - Source: Wikipedia

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People walk towards the main building of the Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Students of Moscow's Universities returned to continued their studies on site. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian statistics soar for virus-linked deaths in 2020

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, Grave diggers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of a COVID-19 victim in the section of a cemetery reserved for coronavirus victims in Kolpino, outside St.Petersburg, Russia. Russia's updated statistics on coronavirus-linked deaths showed that over 100,000 people with COVID-19 had died in the pandemic by December, a number much higher than previously reported by government officials. According to the data released Monday by Russia's state statistics agency, Rosstat, a total of 116,030 people with COVID-19 died in Russia between April and November. The count included cases where the virus was not the main cause of death and where the virus was suspected but not confirmed. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

Russia’s updated stats on virus-linked deaths show increase

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press