489 doctors died from coronavirus in Russia

Updated (13:43)

In Roszdravnadzor they called the statistics of the mortality of doctors not official. This was reported on the website of the department.

“The announced data on the number of dead doctors are not official. It was about data circulating on the Internet, ”the press service of Roszdravnadzor said.

In Russia, 489 doctors who infected coronavirus died. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Roszdravnadzor.

“489 are medical workers, that is, almost 500 people of our colleagues with you, unfortunately, lost,” said the head of the department Alla Samoilova.

Russian doctors who lead their own statistics of colleagues who died during the pandemic during the pandemic that about 444 doctors have already died in the country during this time.

Over the past day, 7,790 new cases of coronavirus infection in 83 regions have been confirmed in Russia, the total number of detected cases of infection in the country reached 561,091.