RE: “152 certificates were issued by doctors working for the Ministry of Justice, whose primary cause of death was the coronavirus”.
OK, did they ONLY examine 152 cases? Or did they examine others? The other government ministries claimed that 17,000 died from Covid ( as per the article ). Did they examine most of the 17,000, or did they only examine a subset of that? if a subset, how many?
Of the 17,000 death certificates issued where COVID-19 was determined to be the cause, 152 came from the subset of officials who investigate criminal cases. It sounds like they had some deaths where some criminal element was suspected, but the deaths turned out to be natural causes (COVID-19), as I’m sure happens frequently.
The rest of the 17,000 were issued by doctors who are not working for the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has no reason to go through and review death certificates for diseases, heart attacks, etc. when no criminal element is suspected in the case. That’s not their job.