Russia registers 37,374 new Covid-19 cases, new all-time high of 1,251 deaths - HQ

MOSCOW. Nov 18 (Interfax) - Russia has registered 37,374 new cases of Covid-19 and a new all-time high of 1,251 deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Thursday.

"Over the past day, 37,374 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in 85 regions of Russia, including 2,617 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (7.0%)," the headquarters said.

There has been an uptick in daily morbidity from the 36,626 new cases reported on Wednesday.

Moscow reported 4,062 new infections on Thursday, as compared to 2,966 the day before.

There were 2,645 new cases in St. Petersburg and 1,781 in the Samara region.

Meanwhile, Russia has seen a new all-time high of 1,251 deaths from Covid-19. The largest number of deaths were reported from Moscow (94), St. Petersburg (79), and the Krasnodar Territory (65).

Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia, it has registered a total of 9,219,912 cases of Covid-19, 260,335 deaths, and 7,919,250 recoveries, including 36,414 persons discharged from hospital over the past day, 7,204 of them in Moscow.

Russian consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Thursday that Russia has performed more than 218.8 million Covid-19 diagnostic tests to date, including 561,000 over the past day. As many as 1,916,706 people remain under medical observation.