Lipetsk Governor about the statistics of the coronavirus:

In a Network there was an audiotape on which the Governor of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov criticizes his subordinates for a report on the number of people infected with coronavirus in the region. Artamonov has confirmed Znak.com the authenticity of the recording, but considers it to be incorrectly interpreted.

“Your numbers have to change, and then our region would think badly,” says Artamonov on the record. “If you are there for more than 100… And 70 — well, in what a problem to change the data that is untrue? You don’t understand what the point of aggravation has come, that someone needs to take your head?” — said the Governor. The head of the region object but he insists and says that to change one number “very simple”.

According to the official may 25, in the Lipetsk region was 1696 patients COVID-19 (+63 occasions in recent days), 539 people were cured, five died.

the Governor of the Lipetsk region Igor Artamonov said Znak.com that same day, he had asked his subordinates to bring the statistics on infected COVID-19 “in accordance with the facts”: “Three services, some give [the data] out there, others here, and send data. <...> Occurs, and that figure is not actual, and there is some stands. It is not control that. But it must be given to the fact. We have a fact more than something that is there [in the statistics] are recorded”, — said the head of the region.

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