Russia hit a grim COVID-19 milestone this week: According to Johns Hopkins University, the country now ranks second in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases.
reported 10 Covid-19-related deaths in addition to the six deaths attributed directly to coronavirus on the national portal.
In Moscow, health officials hit back at media reports that it was underreporting Covid-19 fatalities, saying its data was"absolutely open." But the city's health department also acknowledged that it only counts deaths that were found through post-mortem autopsy to have been caused directly by coronavirus complications.
"Premature removal of restrictions carries a real risk of a second pandemic," he said in a statement Thursday."Unjustified delays will also hit people in the strongest way."Putin shelters at his residenceAs cases began to pick up pace in April Moscow authorities opened a new coronavirus hospital, built in around a month.
The leading business daily Vedomosti reported last year that the city's budget on beautification projects over the past decade -- more than 1.5 trillion rubles , according to Moscow budget data -- was nearly equivalent to the total amount spent on similar projects around the country.
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