Mortality in St. Petersburg increased by 16 % compared to last year

Compared to last year, mortality in St. Petersburg increased by 16 %. This was on the air of the St. Petersburg television channel by the chairman of the Health Committee Dmitry Lisovets.

According to Lisovts, these 16 % reflect the dynamics of total mortality. The head of the Komzdrava noted that it is now better to operate with these data, since “mortality is collected by several systems”, which can lead to errors.

The fox rejected the accusations of concealing real information about mortality. He stated that the committee could not "conceal or hide."

Dmitry Lisovets
Chairman of the Petersburg Health Committee

-I can hardly imagine if the committee or someone instructed the head doctor or pathologist to underestimate the numbers. I think they would have learned about this in the early days. I calmly relate to those publications where they are trying to blame us for what we are manipulating. This is absolutely not true. There were patients who died from coronavirus infection, were dead with coronavirus infection, but the main cause of death was different. There are 62 people who died from external reasons: accidents, poisoning. At the autopsy, coronavirus was discovered.

Earlier, the chairman of the Komzdrva Dmitry Lisovets said that the peak of incidence of coronavirus in St. Petersburg is expected by December.

Read the material “Paper” , as in St. Petersburg, they take into account death because of the Covid-19, why some deaths do not fall into the calculations and how many infected are died in the city since the epidemic, according to statistics researchers.