As Russia coronavirus outbreak was one of the worst world

Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the nationwide block on March 30 imposed curb the spread of the crown, as well as new hotspots of Russia in Europe for infection. With more than 250,000 cases from 15 May Russia now it has the second highest number of confirmed cases COVID-19 around the world. In a televised address to the nation on May 11, Putin said that the work some sectors would be back the next day, although the restrictions on large public events around the country remain in force. Everyone is required to wear masks and gloves in the shops and on public transport. Also in Moscow are closed car dealers, non-food shops, hairdressers and most other service companies. But some of these companies were allowed to re-open the Russian provinces. Residents do not have to leave their homes except for shopping, work or walk the dog, and will have a digital allowed for the trip. The individual regions, he said, would be left to decide whether to keep the rules in place and that there will be an exit prudent “step-by-step”. “We have a long and difficult process ahead of us without any margin for error,” he said. after a decline in the number of recorded infections and deaths related to the virus in Europe, countries have lifted restrictions gradually. But Putin’s announcement of final lockdown came as Russia a record 11,000 new infections on May 11 How many cases does Russia have? It produced the first cases of infection transmitted locally to Russians return from abroad, have been confirmed by March 15, the numbers have increased, reaching 252.245 cases and 2,305 deaths of 14 May, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University. Russia is now the second highest number of infections recorded in the world after the United States “The country has not yet reached its peak,” says Christopher Gerry, director of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the School of Global and Area Studies at Oxford University. But unusually low 0.9% of Russia’s mortality rate, compared with 6% in the US and 14.4% in the U. K. was provided by the experts in question. After analyzing the Financial Times published on May 11, the budget of the national death toll could be higher than 70% higher than the official data showing. The analysis of all-cause mortality – death from disease or harmful exposure through – in Moscow and the second largest city of Russia, St. Petersburg, found that there were 2,074 more deaths in April were compared with the historical average of the past five years. However, official COVID-19 deaths in the two cities only accounted for 629 so that the young lady at the same time, 1444 deaths. If this number has been included in national crown deaths as of May 11, it would lead to a 72% increase in the number of deaths. Moskauerer Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced May 7 that the actual number of infections in the capital was at least three times higher than the official number. Moscow the land in the capital and the main hub of the epicenter of the outbreak Russian transport, more than half of the official confirmed cases and deaths in the country. The Mikhail Mishustin prime minister and Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov among those hospitalized with the virus. Anastasia Vasilieva, the head of the Russian Alliance of doctors claimed that the virus spreads continued to provide much on the official figures. “Some hospitals do, who do not test patients with pneumonia corona, and they always have a positive diagnosis in the statistics. They are afraid of having to report it,” he says. “Hide the actual picture of the population,” he adds. In January 2020, the pneumonia has increased in Moscow 37% compared to an increase Vasilieva believed to have been caused by the crown. On April 2 Vasilieva and his police colleagues were arrested overnight to provide protective equipment while in a hospital outside Moscow, the self-isolation accused of violating the rules. “It ‘s surprising that the Russian authorities appear to criticism over the fatal COVID 19-pandemic to fear,” said Natalia Zviagina, director of Amnesty International Russia. “They want to silence me and stop my activities. The government does not want me to become a hero,” said Vasilieva. Stay up to date on the growing threat to global health, by signing up for our daily newsletter crown. How did Putin and his government respond? Russia was initially to respond quickly to the crown outbreak in China. The Kremlin closed its 2500 miles long border with China on January 30 and a quarantine facility in Siberia set up in early February for Russian citizens from Wuhan, the hot spot of Chinese COVID-19 evacuated outbreak. The registered number of crown cases remained under 120 until March 17, when Putin said: “The situation is generally under control” Between the end of January, and very little has been done late March “, the pandemic to fight” says Gerry. “At the beginning of March, I wrote to the government to tell them that we have to prepare, medical personnel with PSA must deliver, otherwise they will die. Many doctors realized what was about to happen – we saw what happens in Italy. We had time to prepare, “said Vasilieva. Also increased the number of infections, Putin has repeatedly insisted that the situation was “under control.” Experts unusual movement in Russia say centralized political system that seems to be taking a back seat in dealing with the pandemic, where the power is concentrated in the president. He retired in March, leaving local governors decide to introduce any restrictions in his country house outside Moscow. Read: Where is Putin? Russian President Stays Out of Sight as Crown Economy Hits “There is a real decentralization of command responsibility is to the left, and the error rate for the local authorities and not the Kremlin, and definitely not for Putin,” says Mathieu Boulègue, research associate at the Russia and Eurasia program at London think-tank Chatham House. Putin has moved on March 25, the vote nationally on constitutional changes in the country, which had been planned 22, citing concerns for the April Security. Since the beginning of the Parliament a number of changes has been working Putin, Russia’s approval ratings shot would remain a historic low of 59% in April the President in power beyond the end of its current mandate in 2024. And ‘possible survey conducted by the independent polling agency published by the Levada center, on 6 May, down from 69% in February. Levada also said in April that more Russians interviewed local officials have approved measures against the crown, as did Putin. Putin has moved in front of the public vote on constitutional changes a lot “about his approval ratings worried” that he could keep in power beyond the end of its current mandate in 2024, says Boulègue. “He’s trying to create a buffer zone around any criticism and discontent of the population. It ‘too early to say, as the epidemic of popularity of Putin’s influence, long-term, but is unlikely to get off the intact pandemic.” Meanwhile, the mayor of Moscow Sobyanin has emerged as a leading figure in the fight against the virus. He put restrictions on the city March 30 to close more stringent than those of New York, all the parks and restaurants and shops not important. After the leadership Sobyanin head of about 20 regions they have so far made it mandatory for residents to stay home. Why continue to climb cases? The block was introduced too late, experts say. had taken at the time were brought in “, the virus already in possession of Moscow, similar to the British patent in a sense,” says Gerry. Poor deluded soon test the monitoring authorities how far the virus had spread, says Gerry. In February and March, the testing program was “inadequate,” he says. “It ‘s been involved in a test system with three very convoluted levels that tests in western Siberia and wait a few days for the results to be sent. Could have people the virus for a week or more without bringing the test results to know, “says Gerry. The respect of the block was also “relatively low,” in part because of mixed messaging that the Russian audience, says Gerry. “It ‘was definitely lower than required, does not conform to the virus to stop”, he adds. More than 70,000 people from Moscow and St. Petersburg were other regions of planes and trains across the country during the long May holiday (April 14-May 12) visit sent, despite the work of stay-at-home. They were founded during international flights, with few exceptions, on March 27 domestic flights continue to operate (if the demand has fallen sharply). Russia has recently climbed crown tests Putin with talks on May 11 that 170,000 tests are performed every day. However, questions remain about the reliability of the test. Moscow Department of Health issued a statement on May 7, saying that the tests across the country are used improperly, have shown that people in the late stage of disease crown are free. At the beginning of the outbreak, there are “misplaced hubris and arrogance that the pandemic would not have seriously affected Russia,” says Judy Twigg, a professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University. As infection rates in Russia reached more than 27,000 on April 1, the protective equipment to the Kremlin and fans sold in the United States, prompting criticism at home. “We raise money across the country protection for physicians to purchase, and our authorities sell personal protective equipment for the US What a travesty,” the doctors joined Allianz, independent union opposition Alexei Navalny, a tweet on April 2. Less than two weeks earlier, the Kremlin has sent 122 military doctors, personal protective equipment (PPE), fans and disinfection mobile equipment for cargo planes Italian support. Meanwhile, Vasilieva says that is not enough DPI to Moscow. “Some doctors have to wear the same mask for the day when they should change it every two or three hours. And of course, you take public transportation to get home. They fight fire without protection,” he says. The lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) equipment has led to a high rate of transmission in hospitals with patients, doctors, nurses and health workers. created a medical recently Russian interest group a line “in memoriam” List of health workers in life, who died from Corona. The names on the list of 190 people from May 14, the youngest person to be 26 years. “This is tragic. It was not to be,” said Twigg. The regional authorities suddenly added to an unprecedented responsibilities, were also ill-equipped to cope with the crisis. “Do not you want to give these tasks used. They are not clear about the resources they can use them when health systems are short delivery. PSA has not been delivered to hospitals that they really need.” Says Gerry. Health systems in some areas outside of Moscow had to cope with the increase in cases to fight, says Gerry. Although Russia has a higher rate of hospital beds per capita than in Western Europe, most of the medical equipment to be obsolete, he says. “Even where there are intensive care facilities, it is questionable whether they can those in the workforce,” says Gerry. “In some areas, which have emerged as hot spots, there is a shortage of specialists, putting health workers under tremendous pressure,” said Twigg. She says that hospitals have petitions on social media for the help of anesthesiologists, respiratory therapists and others. “They are in demand in some places to the point where the system is desperate for them,” he adds. Twigg points to the cases of three doctors from the hospital window in Russia within two weeks in April and May, as an indication of the strong pressure fell out that employees are compared in health care. “These doctors probably committed suicide all ordinary and stress,” he says. Why Putin Russia will start its easing blockade? to meet the primary motivation for the decision to reopen the public economic era, analysts said. Two-thirds of Russians do not have financial savings, according to a May 2019 survey by Levada, making it urgent to get people back to work. “Russia in a precarious economic situation,” says Boulègue. In a country in which the energy sector accounts for two thirds of exports, the drop in oil prices and natural gas has provided sustenance for the people a real threat. Experts now predict the worst recession in a generation. Putin himself has admitted, on April 24 that Russia now has greater economic crisis than the 2009 global recession. When he announced an easing of restrictions, Putin said that unemployment already doubled to 1.4 million. It can be left up to eight million people out of work, after the former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Russians, who were already out of work have had little recourse on financial support from the government. Unlike most European countries, Russia has introduced support is not a big package that is from work. The first two stimulus packages amounting to the government of 2.8% of GDP, while in the US there will be about 10% of GDP. Russia is preparing a third package and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has argued that the actual amount of state support to 6.5% of GDP. What are the prospects for Russia? The main challenges ahead, not least because of the public health system, which is under increasing pressure. Twigg is particularly concerned about the regions outside of Moscow, including some larger cities and towns and rural areas. “They’re underfunded, understaffed and under-equipped. This is a story still evolving,” said Twigg. But the lack of a block is “one of the main obstacles to life, to the end to save,” says Gerry. For Boulègue the pandemic has revealed the consolidation paradox of Putin’s 20 years in power. “Russia is a fragile power that impose neither the resources nor the ability, a strict blockade. The pandemic is the ultimate stress test.” Please send tips, leads and stories from the front to [email protected]
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