More than 82 thousand Siberians fell ill with coronavirus

The number of coronavirus in Siberia exceeded 82 thousand in the regions more than 1.5 thousand patients died.

The number of new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection per day was 759. The total number of sick reached 82317, follows from the data of the regional headquarters on August 7.

25 people died (seven patients - in the Novosibirsk region, five in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, four in the Irkutsk region, three each in the Altai Territory and the Omsk region, one at a time in Transbaikalia, Tomsk and Kemerovo regions). Thus, at least 1527 people died in Siberia, according to Taiga.info's estimates.

The data of Rosstat show that the authorities do not always report the deaths associated with coronavirus. The statistics were most understood in the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions. The Novosibirsk Minister of Health argued that the delay between the actual death and its introduction to statistics could be two to three weeks.

In Russia, more than 877.13 thousand infected, 14,725 people died, about 683 thousand were recovered. The country went out to second or third place in the world in the world, but the mortality officially declared by the authorities is much lower than in other states with a similar number of sick people. Now Russia is in fourth place.

Against this background, Russian President Vladimir Putin removed the federal regime of “non-working days”, who replaced quarantine, from May 12, transferring all the restrictions on the level of the regions, and also announced on June 24 the parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Putin also appointed “all -Russian voting” on a change in the Constitution on July 1, which will now allow him to run for president until 2036. The authorities of the Siberian regions began to weaken the introduced restrictions, despite the growth of the spread of the epidemic.