DM Monitoring
Moscow: Russia has documented 5,061 cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the past 24 hours, with the total number of people infected reaching 917,884, the anti-coronavirus crisis center informed reporters on Saturday. The daily increase rate has not surpassed 0.6% for the past two weeks.
The lowest increase rate has been documented in the Chukotka Autonomous Region (0.0%), the Moscow Region (0.2%), North Ossetia (0.2%), Moscow (0.3%), the Tuva Republic (0.3%), the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (0.3%), the Smolensk Region (0.3%), the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (0.3%), the Transbaikal Region (0.3%), the Chechen Republic (0.3%), the Kursk Region (0.3%).
Moscow has documented 695 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, St. Petersburg – 162, the Sverdlovsk Region – 158, the Moscow Region – 153, the Rostov Region – 128. Currently, there are 172,856 active cases of COVID-19 in Russia.
Russia has documented 6,447 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
According to the crisis center, in total, 729,411 people have recovered from the virus in Russia, which constitutes 79.5% of the total number of those infected.
Meanwhile, Russia has documented 119 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours compared to 114 the day before, the center informed. The death toll since the start of the pandemic in the country has reached 15,617. The COVID-19 lethality rate in Russia reaches 1.7%.
Earlier, Twelve more coronavirus patients died in Moscow during the past day, with the overall number of fatalities exceeding 4,640, the city’s anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday.
“Twelve coronavirus-positive patients diagnosed with pneumonia have died in Moscow,” it said, adding the overall number of coronavirus-related deaths in Moscow has reached 4,645.
The coronavirus situation in Moscow, which was the most serious in Russia, has visibly stabilized. By today, Moscow has reported nearly 251,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. Some 195,000 patients have recovered. A campaign of voluntary testing for coronavirus antibodies is underway in the capital city.
According to the latest statistics, more than 20.9 million people have been infected worldwide and more than 755,000 deaths have been reported.
To date, 912,823 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Russia, with 722,964 patients having recovered from the disease. Russia’s latest data indicates 15,498 fatalities nationwide. Earlier, the Russian government set up an Internet hotline to keep the public updated on the coronavirus situation.
