Russia’s vaccination certificates reveal COVID-19 numbers up to five times higher than official statistics
Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Scanpix / LETA For the past three weeks, Moscow residents could be refused dine-in service at restaurants unless they presented an official QR code proving vaccination, recovery from COVID-19, or a recent, negative PCR test. These QR codes were issued along with certificates, which, as it turns out, are numbered based on encrypted statistics from the Russian Health Ministry’s official coronavirus registry.