Virologist Drosten is cautiously optimistic about the development of the pandemic – US authorities advise against cruises

In According to official figures, more than 87,000 people died in connection with the coronavirus in Russia in November – a monthly record since the beginning of the pandemic. In most cases, the virus is the main cause of death, the Rosstat statistics office announced in Moscow on Thursday. According to the state agency Tass, the Russian government’s figures for the previous month are significantly lower with 37,000 deaths. According to the report, the discrepancy is explained by the fact that this only records cases in which corona was the main cause of death and confirmation of an infection was quickly available.

The government statistics last showed weeks more than 1000 new corona deaths every day. At this value, however, was already one high number of unreported cases been assumed. Recently, however, the corona situation in the largest country in the world in terms of area had eased somewhat – with more than 900 deaths within one day.

There are no major restrictions in Russia before the upcoming holidays around the turn of the year. The health authorities have called on people to avoid traveling as much as possible. Random checks on ticket portals show that trains are busy at the turn of the year.

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