AnnieA
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Imagine that. 
This falls in line with what I saw on twitter about a Russian woman who went to the local morgue where her father who died from Covid's body was and found that approximately 50 corpses present in the morgue were said by staff to have died of the disease though the official death toll for the town was seven. I haven't seen her story published by a reliable source, but it seems likely given the info below.
Link: How bad is Russia's Covid crisis? Packed morgues and excess deaths tell a darker story than official numbers suggest
This falls in line with what I saw on twitter about a Russian woman who went to the local morgue where her father who died from Covid's body was and found that approximately 50 corpses present in the morgue were said by staff to have died of the disease though the official death toll for the town was seven. I haven't seen her story published by a reliable source, but it seems likely given the info below.Link: How bad is Russia's Covid crisis? Packed morgues and excess deaths tell a darker story than official numbers suggest
Russia says as of November 16 more than 33,000 people have died of Covid-19. But that number is disputed by critics who say the Kremlin is underreporting the numbers.
"I think the real figure is [around] 130,000 people," said Alexey Raksha, a former government statistician who has made his estimates based on official data on excess deaths -- the number of fatalities above what would normally be expected -- to assess the toll of the pandemic.
Using data from local registries, Raksha estimates that Russia reached around 160,000-170,000 excess deaths from April to November. He attributes around 80% of these fatalities to Covid-19 -- an average number aggregated from similar statistics published by Western countries.
Between April and September 2020, Russia's official excess mortality figure was roughly 117,000 more deaths, compared to last year, according to Rosstat, the Russian statistics agency. The official Covid-19 death toll for that period is roughly 21,000 people.
