{"id":100208,"date":"2020-03-21T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T22:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100208"},"modified":"2020-03-21T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T22:39:10","slug":"why-does-russia-population-146-million-have-fewer-coronavirus-cases-than-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/21\/why-does-russia-population-146-million-have-fewer-coronavirus-cases-than-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Russia, population 146 million, have fewer coronavirus cases than Luxembourg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy CNN<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Moscow (CNN)Russian President\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/03\/12\/world\/coronavirus-russia-china-analysis-nic-robertson-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0said this week his country managed to stop the mass spread of coronavirus&#8211; and that the situation was &#8220;under control,&#8221; thanks to early and aggressive measures to keep more\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/03\/18\/europe\/eu-kremlin-disinformation-coronavirus-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">people from getting the disease<\/a>.Does Russia have coronavirus under control? According to information released by Russian officials, Putin&#8217;s strategy seems to have worked. The number of confirmed Russian coronavirus cases is surprisingly low, despite Russia sharing a lengthy border with China and recording its first case back in January.The numbers are picking up, but Russia &#8212; a country of 146 million people &#8212; has fewer confirmed cases than Luxembourg, with just 253 people infected. Luxembourg, by contrast, has a population of just 628,000, according to the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/resources\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/lu.html\" target=\"_blank\">CIA World Factbook<\/a>, and by Saturday had\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported 670 coronavirus cases<\/a>\u00a0with eight deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/21\/europe\/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/21\/europe\/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy CNN Moscow (CNN)Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0said this week his country managed to stop the mass spread of coronavirus&#8211; and that the situation was &#8220;under control,&#8221; thanks to early and aggressive measures to keep more\u00a0people from getting the disease.Does Russia have coronavirus under control? According to information released by Russian officials, Putin&#8217;s strategy seems to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}