Russia’s Embassy in the US has accused the NYT of refusing to publish a comparison of the Covid-19 death rates in Moscow, London, and New York. The paper earlier accused Russia of “underreporting” the death rate from the disease.
On May 11, the New York Times ran a story which claimed to have solved the “mystery” of Russia’s relatively lower death rate from Covid-19, which is below the world average. Citing official statistics, the paper noted that Moscow’s number of overall deaths in April exceeded its five-year average for the same period by more than 1,700. Together with the city’s official death toll from Covid-19 – just 642 at the time – this indicted “significant underreporting” by the authorities, the NYT said.
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