The authorities estimated the damage to Russia from COVID-19 in 2022 at 1.6 trillion rubles.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2022 Russialost about 1.6 trillion rubles. This amount includes both direct medical expenses and medical expenses,

The economic damage caused to Russia by the coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) pandemic in 2022 amounted to about 1.6 trillion rubles, follows from the report of Rospotrebnadzor.

Specialists included in this amount direct medical expenses (DMT), medical expenses during the illness, as well as loss of working time in case of death of patients of working age.

From the calculations of the FBSI "Central Research Institute of Epidemiology" of Rospotrebnadzor, it follows:

direct medical expenses for sick people ranged from 0.76 to 1.35 trillion rubles; “loss of years of life in case of death” was determined in the amount of at least 0.5 trillion rubles.

Rospotrebnadzor emphasized that the total economic damage from COVID-19 in Russia could be significantly higher if it were not for the identification of most of the infected in the early stages.

“When comparing the incidence rates in 2022 with last year, for the majority of registered infectious diseases, the number of cases of which decreased during the period of high incidence of COVID-19, there was a “return” to the indicators of the “pre-COVID” period,” the experts noted.

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WHO Director - General Tedros Ghebreyesus announced the end of the global emergency for COVID-19 on May 5, 2023, almost three years after it was declared. He explained that for more than one year, “the pandemic has been on a downward trend, population immunity is rising due to vaccination and infection, mortality is decreasing and the pressure on health systems is easing.”

In Russia, according to the operational headquarters, 399,000 people infected with COVID-19 have died since the beginning of the pandemic. Rosstat stopped publishing data on deaths due to coronavirus in the fall of 2022. By that time, according to the statistical service, 823.7 thousand people with coronavirus had died in the country. Rosstat also took into account cases where COVID-19 was not the main cause of death.

The most affected countries from COVID-19 in terms of the absolute number of deaths were the United States , Brazil and India - 1.1 million people died from the coronavirus, 0.7 million and 0.5 million residents, respectively.

How the number of hospitalizations with coronavirus in Russia is changing The number of hospitalized and diagnosed cases per day. The operational headquarters began to provide open regular statistics on hospitalizations from January 20, 2022 Source: federal operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus Data for Russia i