Russia registers 11,749 new Covid-19 cases, 383 deaths in past 24 hours - HQ
MOSCOW. Feb 24 (Interfax) - Russia has registered 11,749 new Covid-19 cases and 383 deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Over the past day, 11,749 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in 85 regions of Russia, including 1,246 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (10.6%)," the headquarters said.
The growth in coronavirus morbidity has been on decline since the beginning of this year, and about 11,500 new cases have been registered for two consecutive days.
The number of coronavirus infections remains the highest in Moscow, yet it has also been on decline since January, and the morbidity levels of early this week and last week correlate to the levels of September 2020, when, however, the coronavirus morbidity curve was on the rise.
According to the headquarters, Moscow reported 1,417 new Covid-19 cases, 43 deaths, and 1,719 recoveries in the past 24 hours.
As of this date, Russia has registered a total of 4,200,902 cases of Covid-19 (0.3%), including 84,430 deaths, including 383 in the past 24 hours, and 3,751,562 recoveries, including 12,218 in the past 24 hours.
The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) said on Wednesday that Russia had performed more than 202.3 million Covid-19 diagnostic tests to date, including 374,000 over the past day. As many as 585,091 people remain under medical observation.