As the world reels from the novel coronavirus pandemic, Russia is doing its best to turn global turmoil into propaganda fodder. To date, a country of 146 million people straddling Europe and Asia and that has a great deal of commerce with those two great epicenters of the disease reports only 438 confirmed coronavirus cases and no deaths. One previously disclosed fatality has been dismissed by authorities as attributable to other causes.
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People wearing face masks queue by a Russia's human wellbeing agency Rospotrebnadzor's mobile screening centre for the COVID-19 coronavirus disease at Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo airport on March 23, 2020.
