Russian Authorities Raise April’s Coronavirus Death Toll Amid Criticism

MOSCOW—Russian authorities revised the nation’s coronavirus death tally upward by close to 50{f08ff3a0ad7db12f5b424ba38f473ff67b97b420df338baa81683bbacd458fca} for April, shifting to counting guidelines recommended by the World Health Organization amid scrutiny of its low reported death rate.

Russia’s statistics initially included only people who had tested positive for the pathogen, and for whom a postmortem analysis had shown that Covid-19 was the primary cause of death. On Friday, however, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said the tally would now include suspected Covid-19…