MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prior to she passed away in a Moscow medical facility previously this month, Liubov Kashaeva, 74, twice evaluated favorable for the brand-new coronavirus. Her death was not associated to the virus. It was put down to the cancer she had been suffering from.
Liubov Kashaeva wearing a protective mask sprays antibacterial while tending plants at her household’s nation home near the town of Chekhov in Moscow Region, Russia March 29,2020 Courtesy of Daria Kornilova/Handout via REUTERS
” The medical death certificate … said she died of a malignant tumour,” Kashaeva’s daughter-in-law, Daria Kornilova, stated. “Coronavirus was not pointed out anywhere.”
Kashaeva is among countless Russians contaminated with the novel coronavirus whose deaths have actually been put down to other causes.
Russia has registered the 2nd highest number of infections internationally, at 299,941 total cases, and 2,837 deaths. That produces a death rate of 1.88 per 100,000 Russians, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The equivalent U.S. figure is 27.61 per 100,000 Americans, and 52.45 in Britain.
Russia has defended the way it counts coronavirus deaths.
” We now understand all the attributes of COVID-19 adequately well,” pathologist Oleg Zairatyants, author of the Moscow Health Department standards for coronavirus autopsies, informed Reuters.
” The outcome (of the analysis) is unbiased and noticable by the commission … Sadly individuals are passing away, however their cause of death is clear to us,” he stated, when inquired about deaths not being attributed to COVID-19 even when somebody had actually checked positive for the virus.
However, the relatives of a number of departed patients challenge that their liked ones would have passed away when they did had it not