The rising mortality rate in Russia during the pandemic is linked to both COVID-19 and other diseases, which were aggravated by this infection, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said, TASS reports.
"As the accumulated experience and analysis of deaths during the epidemic rise shows, the increase in mortality rate among the population during the COVID-19 pandemic is related to both directly the coronavirus infection and the decompensation of other diseases, where COVID-19 contributed to their more severe course, for example, diabetes, diseases of the circulatory system and cancer," the minister was quoted by the press service as saying.
The procedure of counting deaths and establishing their causes meets the requirements of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Murashko said.
