A food delivery man wearing a protective face mask walks between the towers of Moscow City business center during the Covid-19 pandemic in Moscow, Russia, 02 February 2022. EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV It said 4,991 people had died of Covid-19 or related causes in June, down from 7,098 in May.
Russia recorded more than 965,000 excess deaths between April 2020 and June 2022 compared with the average mortality in 2015-2019, Reuters calculations showed.
This number decreased in June, because about 9,900 fewer people than average died in that month.
Some epidemiologists say that calculating excess deaths is the best way to assess the true impact of a pandemic.