It is a health system threatened with implosion by the exponential spread of Covid-19. Even if, in Russia, the ravages of the pandemic appear so far more limited than in Europe or in the United States, the country - in 12th place of the contamination in the world - knows, these last days, a vertiginous soaring: 6,060 additional cases in twenty-four hours Sunday, for a national total of 42,853 people infected, two thirds listed in Moscow, and 361 dead, 48 more than the day before. According to experts, the assessment could actually be much heavier, the health authorities having themselves conceded the imperfect reliability of the tests and the overwhelmed analysis centers being slow to provide the results.
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The immediate future looks critical, hammering city officials and politicians. In his Easter message, Vladimir Putin nonetheless wanted to be reassuring: "the situation is under total control, " he said on Sunday . "We have not yet reached
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