Almost 75 thousand Siberians fell ill with coronavirus

The number of patients with coronavirus in Siberia is approaching 75 thousand. More than 1.3 thousand patients have died in the regions.

In the regions of Siberia, 842 cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed per day. The total number of cases reached 74,873, according to data from regional headquarters on July 29.

26 people died per day (most of all - seven patients each - died in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Novosibirsk Region). Thus, all in Siberia, according to Taiga's calculations. info, at least 1334 people died.

to Rosstat data According , the authorities do not always report coronavirus-related deaths. Most of all, the statistics were underestimated in the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions. The Novosibirsk Minister of Health argued that the delay between the actual death and its inclusion in the statistics could be two to three weeks.

In Russia, more than 828.9 thousand infected people were recorded, 13,673 people died, about 620 thousand recovered. The country ranked second or third in the world in terms of the number of cases, but the death rate officially announced by the authorities is much lower than in other states with a similar number of cases. Now Russia is in fourth place.

Against this background, Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the federal “non-working days” regime, which replaced quarantine, from May 12, transferring all restrictions to the regional level, and also announced a parade on June 24 in honor of the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. Putin also scheduled a "nationwide vote" on July 1 to change the constitution, which would now allow him to run for president until 2036. The authorities of the Siberian regions have begun to ease the restrictions imposed, despite the growth in the spread of the epidemic.