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Russia reported 25,116 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including 4,561 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,933,115.
Russia is in the grip of a surge in cases that authorities have blamed on the contagious Delta variant and the slow rate of vaccinations, Reuters reports.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University, said the assessment of England’s unlocking on 19 July as a “dangerous, unethical experiment” was “very inaccurate”.
He told Times Radio:
The concern at the moment is that the trajectory of hospitalisations and deaths in the UK is upwards, fairly slowly… and we want to see what that trend does.
It’s widely accepted the number of cases would increase, we’ve known this would happen when we unlocked for many months now, we’d expect it…. so ‘dangerous, unethical experiment’ seems to be a very inaccurate description of what’s going on.
