The mayor questioned the possibility to hide the real picture on COVID-19

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin believes that the real situation for the coronavirus in the capital, impossible to hide. He stated this in an interview with radio station “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. “We are a small town, all live within 15 km of each other, you know, call a doctor, ask friends who are sick”, — said Sobyanin in response to criticisms from Internet users about the fact that the city authorities conceal the real situation. As said Sobyanin, in addition to formal publication of data on the number of people infected, there is a huge amount of other information about what is happening in the city. According to him, in Moscow tests for coronavirus is approximately two times more than in other regions of Russia, and this figure is one of the highest in the world. The mayor said that day in city is about 70 thousand studies. As for deaths from coronavirus infection, according to Sobyanin, “the dead will not hide”. “These numbers are easy to compare with data from prior years. We openly publish,” he said, pointing to the importance of giving objective information. According to the mayor, people will live with the coronavirus always because the infection cannot be destroyed. It’s like trying to eradicate the flu or a cold, he added. According to the information of the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus in Moscow COVID-19 contracted almost 232 million people. The city is a leader in the number of deaths to 4 thousand 258. The country has passed 11 thousand 937 patients.

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