Russia registers 53,457 cases of Covid-19, 106 deaths in past 24 hours - HQ

MOSCOW. Sept 22 (Interfax) - Russia has registered 53,457 new cases of Covid-19 and 106 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Thursday.

"Russia has recorded 53,457 new cases of Covid-19 and 3,719 patients have been hospitalized, down 13.9% from the previous day," the headquarters said.

The number of hospitalizations has grown in 30 Russian constituent territories, has decreased in 52, and has remained unchanged in three, it said.

Daily morbidity has grown by 412 cases from the 53,045 reported on Wednesday. The morbidity level is similar to that of March 10-12, when Russia saw over 50,000 infections per day and the morbidity curve was on the decline.

The number of hospitalizations is approximately the same as in March when morbidity levels were similar.

Covid-19 mortality has been much lower in September, compared to March when over 500-600 deaths from Covid-19 were reported daily, versus 106 in the past 24 hours and 107 the day before.

"Another 57,019 patients recovered over the past day, down 4.5% from September 21," the headquarters said.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Russia has seen a total of 20,641,559 cases of Covid-19, including 386,447 deaths and 19,594,562 recoveries.