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Putin says Russia handled COVID-19 outbreak better than US

by Agencies

ISTANBUL Jun 14, 2020 - 8:03 pm GMT+3
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with social workers of state institutions and non-profit organizations via teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, June 8, 2020. (Kremlin Pool Photo via EPA-EFE)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with social workers of state institutions and non-profit organizations via teleconference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, June 8, 2020. (Kremlin Pool Photo via EPA-EFE)
by Agencies Jun 14, 2020 8:03 pm

President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia was emerging from the coronavirus pandemic with minimal losses, having handled it better than the United States where he said party political interests got in the way.

He contrasted the situations in the two countries, saying in Russia, "We are exiting the coronavirus situation steadily with minimal losses, God willing; in the States it isn't happening that way."

Russia on Sunday confirmed 8,835 new virus cases, taking the total to 528,964, the third highest in the world.

Regions are gradually lifting lockdown restrictions, and Moscow has reopened non-essential shops and hairdressers.

The U.S. has the world's largest number of cases by far at 2.07 million.

Putin told state television the coronavirus pandemic had exposed "deep-seated internal crises" in the U.S.

He criticized a lack of strong leadership on the virus situation, saying that "the (U.S.) president says we need to do such-and-such but the governors somewhere tell him where to go."

"I think the problem is that group interests, party interests are put higher than the interests of the whole of society and the interests of the people," he said.

In Russia, however, he argued, the government and regional leaders work "as one team" and do not differ from the official line.

"I doubt anyone in the government or the regions would say 'we're not going to do what the government says, what the president says, we think it's wrong,'" Putin said of the virus strategy.

He boasted that when the northern Caucasus region of Dagestan suffered particularly hard from the virus, "the whole country rallied to help."

Russia's official death toll stands at 6,948, much lower than in many other countries, including the U.S. which has had over 115,000 deaths. The veracity of Russian statistics has sometimes been the focus of fierce debate, however.

Russia has now begun giving fuller information on deaths, including cases where coronavirus appeared to be the cause but was not detected by tests, as well as cases where the virus was confirmed but not considered the main cause of death.

Using this new method, Russia on Saturday published official figures for virus deaths in April of 2,712, more than twice the figure of 1,152 previously reported by the task force.

This represents a death rate of 2.6% among those infected, while officials said the death rate for May and early June would be higher.

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