
On October 8, Rosstat published data on the vital movement of the population in the regions of the Russian Federation for the first 8 months of the year and for August. According to official statistics, 35,810 people died in Tatarstan in January-August, which is 8.2% or 2,714 more than in the same period last year.
During August, 5334 people died in Tatarstan, which is 25.4% or 1080 people more than last year.
covid-19 , according to Rosstat, became the main cause of death of 1.2 thousand people in January-August of this year. A year earlier there were 32. The increase was 3756.3%. The virus was identified in 78 who died, in 1124 - no. In another 6 deaths, statistics refer the virus not to the main causes of death, but to those that had a significant impact on the development of diseases that led to the death of the patient.
The HEAD of the Ritual Funeral Home, Radik Mustafin, said in Andrei Kuzmin's Interview Without a Tie program that the death rate increased by 40% amid the CORONAVIRUS pandemic.
“In Kazan, before the average daily regime was 40 burials per day, and now it is about 75-100. In the regions there were about 3-5 burials a day, and now there are 8-10,” Mustafin said in an interview published by the Tatarstan 24 website.