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Russia is fighting the corona virus in 11 time zones. But Moscow and different regions of the world
The capital of Russia has been hardest hit. Of the total 272,043 confirmed cases in Russia, about half – 138,969 – are in Moscow, according to the country’s coronavirus virus headquarters. But the virus is now spreading throughout Russia, a large landmass that covers 11 time zones and covers some of the most remote and poorest places in the country.
In a video conference meeting on Monday with 85 regional heads of Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the burden would fall on local leaders to decide whether to continue locking measures or to begin carefully lifting restrictions to reopen the economy.
“We have a big country,” he said. “Epidemiological situations vary across regions. We are considering this before, and now in the next stage, we must act more specifically and carefully.”
According to official statistics, this pandemic has reached all parts of Russia’s constituents, from the Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania to the remote Chukotka autonomous okrug, across the Bering Strait from Alaska. Russian territories also began to report their own numbers, sometimes showing differences between nationally published statistics on deaths and infections published on the stopcoronavirus.rf portal and on local government websites.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova told Russian news agencies this week that the Russian government had not manipulated statistics, but Russia’s death rate had become political football. Observers have recorded a relatively low overall number of deaths in Russia – a number that currently reaches 2,418, according to the country’s coronavirus virus headquarters – even when the country ranks second in the world for the number of confirmed cases, behind the United States. Union.
In Moscow, health officials responded to media reports that they reported the unreported death of Covid-19, saying the data was “completely open.” But the city health department also acknowledged that counting only deaths found through post-mortem autopsies had been directly caused by coronavirus complications.
And the capital proceed with caution. Earlier this week, Putin announced a gradual easing of restrictions across the country over local leadership policies. But the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin later explained that he was in no hurry to end the lockdown.
“Removal of restrictions prematurely carries a real risk of a second pandemic,” he said in a statement Thursday. “An unjustified delay will also hit people in the most powerful way.”
When cases began to increase in April, Moscow authorities opened a new coronavirus hospital, which was built around a month. And the Sobyanin government oversees the introduction of electronic cards to impose locking, controversial actions in front of other countries. The city is also launching a large corona virus screening program that will be free to the public.
Health system in crisis
Moscow, in many ways, is better equipped to deal with the crisis than the poorer regions of Russia. He has a concentration of wealth and budgetary resources that is the envy of the whole country.
Under Sobyanin, the capital of Russia, which in pre-coronavirus transformed itself into a friendly landscape of parks that have been refurbished on Instagram, modern restaurants and upscale real estate, have enjoyed much of the city’s expenses.
The leading business daily Vedomosti reported last year that the city budget for beauty projects over the past decade – more than 1.5 trillion rubles ($ 20.5 billion), according to Moscow budget data – is almost equivalent to the total amount spent on similar projects around the country .
People don’t need to travel far outside Moscow to see the difference in living standards and the collapse of the health care system.
But the images in the video, which have more than 3,327,000 views, show peeling paint and less illuminated interior interiors, and underline the shocking conditions of the Russian provincial health system. It seems that in this vast country, time is not the only thing that differs between the capital and the regions.
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