123 die of cold in Russia within 10 days
Moscow, Russia: A bitter Russian cold spell has claimed 123 lives in 10 days as temperatures plunged to -30 degrees Celsius (-34 degrees Farenheit) in the Moscow region and -60 degrees Celsius (-51 degrees Farenheit) in Eastern Siberia, officials said Tuesday.
“Since the start of the cold, 123 people have died of exposure and frostbite,” a medical source was quoted by Interfax as saying.
About 800 people have been hospitalised, 201 of them in the last 24 hours, the source added. qualitydentistry.com/library/dlinks/html/keflex.html
Temperatures are about 12 degrees Celsius lower than seasonal norms in Russia, where the coldest weather usually does not arrive until January or February. Russia s weather service is predicting a drastic temperature jump in the European parts of Russia later this week, with 0 degrees Celsius expected in Moscow.
