A change in methodology has pushed Moscow’s case fatality statistics closer to international levels, Oliver Carroll writes, but doubts about accuracy nationwide still linger
epidemic. But for a while, Russian statistics were certainly staking a claim. With the lowest case fatality rate of any major economy in the world, the Kremlin boasted of authoritarian professionalism and miraculous medicine. The western media outlets that suggested otherwise were’s numbers. “We never manipulate official statistical data,” said Tatyana Golikova, a deputy prime minister, on 14 May. “We’re not covering anything up,” said Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, a week later.
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