Kalmykia topped the top ten subjects in which the level of anxiety for their own health increased over the past month in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Center for Current Politics, which found out how residents of different regions and cities of Russia feel about the coronavirus pandemic, Kalmykia topped the rating in terms of the popularity of search queries about coronavirus on the Internet. The popularity of information about covid among the residents of our republic was 160 percent (43,865 impressions per month).
In addition to Kalmykia, the top ten subjects where the level of anxiety increased significantly included Karachay-Cherkessia, Udmurtia, Altai, Penza, Volgograd, Kirov, Kostroma, Samara and Lipetsk regions.
We add that in terms of the increase in new cases over the last week – 17.04 percent – Kalmykia took 11th place in the country.