MOSCOW (HRNW) – Nearly 500 Russian medics who tested positive for the coronavirus have died, the head of the state health watchdog said Thursday, a far higher figure than given before.
“489 — that is medics, unfortunately we have lost almost 500 of our colleagues,” the Roszdravnadzor watchdog chief Alla Samoilova said at an online conference, TASS state news agency reported.
Previously a health ministry official on May 26 gave a confirmed death toll of 101.
The new toll is even higher than that given by an independent website set up by medics where colleagues report deaths, the Remembrance List, which lists 444 deaths.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged problems in supplying personal protective equipment to medics.
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