Russia’s official coronavirus count faces questions amid ‘fourth wave’ surge

Russia’s official statistics confirmed 221,313 pandemic-related deaths by mid-October, however the impartial demographer Alexey Raksha calculated that extra mortality — seen by analysts as essentially the most dependable indicator of coronavirus deaths — has reached round 750,000. Raksha’s calculation used figures maintained by Rosstat, Russia’s statistical company. In the meantime, a report within the Moscow Occasions estimated the determine at about 660,000.