WHO Director of Emergency Situations In Emergency Situations Macl Ryan said that the World Health Organization considers unusually low mortality statistics in Russia, he told about it at a briefing in Geneva.
"This is definitely unusual that the number of deaths in relation to confirmed patients is so low. But again, many tests were conducted in Russia, they quickly increased the number of tests. So we see when the number of tests increases, mortality is reduced. But it will be important that Russia appreciates how certification for death from COVID-19 is being done to be sure that this is done neatly and properly, "the director of the WHO RIA Novosti program quotes.
Statistics in Russia is largely similar to the situation in some European countries. At the same time, many European states fixed death from coronavirus in real time and took into account all cases of detection of the disease.
Maria Wang Kerkhov, head of the technical group of emergency diseases, said that soon many countries will review statistics, and the mortality rate in states will change.
"Many countries will return back and revise death certificates. And there will be changes. I think it can be said that the number of deaths are already being revised in a number of countries. It is important to accept the fact that this can happen, but it goes due to the revision. So we expect to see the revision of the mortality from COVID-19 in many countries, "Maria Van Kerkhov added.