{"id":4777,"date":"2021-01-04T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=145979"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:00:23","slug":"st-petersburg-records-more-new-covid-cases-than-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/st-petersburg-records-more-new-covid-cases-than-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Records More New COVID Cases Than Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/18EF81BD-F8AE-44C9-9806-BCD2584EF2D9_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>The number of new COVID-19 cases in Russia\u2019s second-largest city of St. Petersburg has surpassed that of Moscow for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg recorded 3,657 new cases of the coronavirus over a 24-hour period ending on January 4 compared with 3,591 new cases in Moscow, Russian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow, which has about 13 million residents, or nearly double that of St. Petersburg, has seen the number of new cases fall by half over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Daily new cases in St. Petersburg have remained around the same level.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in Moscow pushed the total number of new daily COVID-19 cases in Russia below 20,000 on January 4 for the first time since December 1.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has recorded more than 3.2 million cases of COVID-19, the world\u2019s fourth-largest tally after the United States, India, and Brazil. The country has <a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\">officially recorded more than 58,000 deaths,<\/a> the eighth-highest globally.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are widespread doubts over the accuracy of official Russian data.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova last month revealed that more than 80 percent of excess deaths this year are linked to COVID-19, which would mean its death toll is three times higher than officially reported.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by RBC<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/04\/st-petersburg-records-more-new-covid-cases-than-moscow\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of new COVID-19 cases in Russia\u2019s second-largest city of St. Petersburg has surpassed that of Moscow for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}