Russia records 6,635 COVID-19 infections over 24 hours

According to the crisis center, the daily growth of this indicator has not exceeded 0.9% for the past four days. 

The lowest daily rates are registered in Moscow (0.3%), the Moscow Region (0.3%), the Chechen Republic (0.3%), Sevastopol (0.4%), the Bryansk Region (0.5%) and the Kaliningrad Region (0.5%). Thus, 637 new cases were recorded in Moscow, 300 — in St. Petersburg, 275 — in the Sverdlovsk Region, 263 — in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area and 240 — in the Altai Region. Currently in Russia 213,851 patients are undergoing treatment.

Russia’s COVID-19 death toll grew by 174 in the past 24 hours compared to 176 deaths a day earlier bringing total fatalities to 11,017, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported. Of these, 28 patients have died in Moscow, 21 — in St. Petersburg, 17 — in the Krasnoyarsk Region, 13 — in the Moscow Region, 10 — in the Sverdlovsk Region, 7 — in the Novgorod Region and 6 — in the Tyva Republic in the past 24 hours. According to the crisis center, COVID-19 fatalities account for 1.54% of all infected individuals in Russia.

Meanwhile Russia has documented 7,752 recoveries from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with the total number of the recovered in the country reaching 489,068, the anti-coronavirus crisis center informed. Of these, 1,007 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Moscow, 377 — in the Moscow Region, 355 — in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 279 — in the Sverdlovsk Region and 265 — in the Krasnoyarsk Region in the past 24 hours.

According to the crisis center, the share of those recovered reaches 68.5% of the total number of those infected in Russia.