New data suggest Russia’s Covid-19 death toll in 2020 among highest in the world
From CNN’s Mary Ilyushina in Moscow
Cemetery workers disinfect a grave as they bury a COVID-19 victim in the Butovskoye cemetery outside Moscow, Russia on May 15, 2020. Kirill Zykov/Moscow News Agency/AP
New figures released by Russia’s federal statistics agency Monday indicate as many as 162,429 deaths in Russia were related to Covid-19 in 2020, a figure much higher than previously reported.
Russia officially reported 57,555 deaths from Covid-19 in 2020, according to data from the country’s coronavirus task force that is published on an easily accessed web page. But figures released by the agency, Rosstat, are less readily accessible: They are available online but buried in monthly spreadsheets.
US considers mobile vaccination centers to tackle undersupply of shots, White House adviser says
From CNN Health s Jacqueline Howard
Getting Covid-19 vaccination appointments has been a challenge for many Americans because we re in a situation of undersupply of vaccine, according to Andy Slavitt, the senior Biden White House adviser for Covid Response. We re in a situation, and we will be for a little while, of undersupply, Slavitt told NPR s Mary Louise Kelly on
All Things Considered on Monday. At one point we thought that there was a lot of manufacturing that had gone on over the last year and that would be the case. It wasn t and I think our job is to level with folks, he said.
endIndex: Liang Wannian speaks during a joint press conference with the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, on Tuesday, February 9. Photo courtesy: Ng Han Guan/AP
(CNN) - Viruses genetically related to SARS-CoV-2 have not been identified in different animals including horseshoe bats and pangolins, and all animals tested in Wuhan tested negative for the virus, China s leading health official said Tuesday.
At a joint World Health Organization-China press conference in Wuhan on Tuesday, Liang Wannian, Head of Expert Panel of COVID-19 Response of China National Health Commission (NHC) said that the studies and research have failed to identify evidence of SARS-CoV-2 related viruses in samples of wildlife in Wuhan and different places in China.
A Chinese health official working with the team of World Health Organization experts in Wuhan said that the Huanan seafood market may not be the first place of the COVID-19 outbreak.
No substantial circulation of Covid in Wuhan before the late 2019 outbreak, Chinese health official says
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Sandi Sidhu, CNN
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endIndex: A WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference is held at the end of a WHO mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China, on Tuesday, February 9. Photo courtesy: Ng Han Guan/AP
(CNN) - WHO s international team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 has concluded its four-week mission to Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
They presented a summary of their findings during a joint press conference with Chinese authorities at a hotel in Wuhan on Tuesday, prior to their departure from China.