Abnormally low winter temperatures in
Russia continue to claim more and more lives. Twenty-one people froze to
death in only one day; 147 others were hospitalized with frostbite. The
cold weather in central Russia is not going to get any warmer soon. On
December 19, the cold has reached St. Petersburg, where temperatures
fell below -20 degrees Centigrade. It is 30 degrees below zero in the
Ivanovo region, -22C in the Kaluga region, and -25 in Tver.
For the time being, the winter of 2012 has killed 45 people (266 have been hospitalized).
In Moscow, for example, the cold snap
came on December 15 and will last until next Wednesday, forecasters say.
At the weekend, night temperatures will drop to 26 degrees below zero
Centigrade.
"The idea that alcohol warms people up
from within in freezing weather is wrong. Alcohol only can only mislead
people and their defenses - it can make people feel that they are warm.
Alcohol is harmful in cold weather. One needs normal hearty food and
warm clothing to be safe," Russia's Chief Sanitary Doctor Gennady
Onishchenko said.
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