ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The COVID-19 pandemic in different countries: Russia, Brazil and India

Rocha Ferreira SS1, Koreshkova KYu1, Guduru Y1, Rocha LS2, Perminova LA1
About authors

1 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad

2 State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Río de Janeiro, Brazil

Correspondence should be addressed: Samantha Dos Santos Rocha Ferreira
ul. A. Nevskogo, 14, г. Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia; moc.liamg@rss.ahcorahtnamas

About paper

Acknowledgments: prof. Zhanna Malakhova and Elena Kashuba from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University for criticizing the authors’ ideas and development of the study.

Author contribution: Rocha Ferreira SS — official statistical data collection about the pandemic of novel coronavirus infection in three examined countries: calculation of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality values in three studied countries, statistical processing of the obtained data analysis using Windows Microsoft Excel 10; Koreshkova KYu — official statistical data collection about the pandemic of novel coronavirus infection in Russia; calculation of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality values in Russia, statistical analysis of the obtained data; Guduru Y — official statistical data collection about the pandemic of novel coronavirus infection in India, statistical analysis of the obtained data; Rocha LS— statistical processing of the study results; Perminova LA — academic guidance to students during the entire research, critical assessment, and correction of the developed scientific work.

Received: 2022-04-22 Accepted: 2022-05-25 Published online: 2022-06-30
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