Russia's new Covid numbers are increasing and is very odd.....

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/russia/

I check out Worldometers and today I noticed that Russia has had a strange shift in new Covid cases and I wonder what is causing it while other countries, except for S Korea, which has matching numbers, and the US (the US is still seeing some increases but not very much).

In Russia...
On May 14th there were 2996 new cases, on May 23 (1 week later) there were 17,118 new cases.
A 15,000 increase in 1 month!

On May 15th there were 26 deaths, on May 23 (1 week later) there were 183 new deaths.

What would explain this?

[keithbvadu2]

1. Ignoring COVID like Trump did, killing over 800,000 Americans.

[BigmanPigman]

2. And like DeathSantis does in FL.

So FL's governor is doing what Putin does...my, my.

[LonePirate]

3. What would explain this? Three things come to mind.

1. A new strain/variant is circulating.
2. Large groups of unvaccinated people were exposed via community events or similar.
3. A records keeper returned from vacation and processed a large paperwork backlog.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I thought of 1 and 3 too

since the numbers increased before the near "coup" weeks ago. I thought that the large protests may have been responcible.

[Tetrachloride]

5. dead soldiers in Ukraine

[BigmanPigman]

6. I never thought of that possibility...

But I wouldn't be surprised if that was the real reason.