Monday, July 13, 2020

13/7/20: COVID19 Update: Russia


Russia continues to report slowly declining numbers of new cases, while official death rates are trending up:


The above numbers confirm what I have been saying for some time now: relaxation of constraints in advance of the constitutional referendum vote was too fast, too early to achieve a meaningful control over the pandemic numbers.

One controversial statistic reported by the Russian authorities is the death rates (see more on this here: https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2020/07/30620-covid19-update-russia.html). Russian reported mortality rates have finally rose to the levels within the 95% confidence interval of the mean for BRIICS economies:


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