Russia's statistics service reports 33.9% more deaths in Jan 2021 than Jan 2020

Russia's state statistics service on Friday said 219,769 people had died across the country in January, a figure 33.9% higher than in the same month in 2020.

The Rosstat statistics agency said 37,107 of the January 2021 deaths were related to COVID-19.

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