Russia registers 9,169 Covid-19 cases, 383 deaths in past 24 hours - HQ
MOSCOW. April 1 (Interfax) - Russia has seen 9,169 new cases of Covid-19 and 383 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Thursday.
"Over the past day, 9,169 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in 84 regions of Russia, including 1,216 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (13.3%)," the headquarters said.
At the beginning of this week, Russia was seeing over 8,000 coronavirus infections a day, but the numbers again spiked above 9,000 on Thursday. The highest numbers of cases are still being reported from Moscow, which has seen 2,151 new cases in the past 24 hours. There had been fewer than 2,000 daily coronavirus infections in Moscow since March 4.
The smallest number of infections has been reported by the Jewish Autonomous District (3), as well as the Magadan region and Tuva (one each). There were zero cases in the Chukotka Autonomous District.
Over the past day, 10,247 patients were discharged from hospitals upon recovery from Covid-19 across Russia, including 1,632 in Moscow, and 383 patients died, including 51 in the capital.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia on March 2, 2020, the country has registered a total of 4,554,264 cases of Covid-19, including 99,233 deaths and 4,176,419 recoveries.
Russian health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Thursday that Russia has performed more than 120.6 million Covid-19 diagnostic tests to date, including 343,000 over the past day. As many as 491,120 people remain under medical observation.
