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Russia emerging faster than US from Covid-19 crisis: Vladimir Putin

Bloomber Moscow | Updated on June 14, 2020 Published on June 14, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin said Russia is emerging confidently from the coronavirus crisis, drawing a contrast with the United States (US) where he suggested Donald Trumps efforts to tackle the pandemic have been hamstrung by political bickering.

In an interview, Putin said Russia has suffered minimal losses from the virus and praised the government for working in a coordinated fashion as a single team.

Protests sweeping the US are a sign of deep internal crises, he said.

Putin said it would be hard to imagine a situation in Russia where regional governors ignored his instructions. In the US, some states have defied guidance from the White House in dealing with the deadly virus.

The president says you need to do such-and-such, and the governors on the ground say -- get stuffed, Putin said. Its a problem of party interests being placed above those of society as a whole and the interests of the people.

While Russia has the third-highest number of cases globally, after the US and Brazil, the countrys death toll from Covid-19 is comparatively low. New coronavirus cases in Russia grew 1.7 per cent in the past day with an additional 119 deaths in the period, bringing the overall total to 6,948.

Published on June 14, 2020

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