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Over the past 24 hours, another 49,513 people have been confirmed to have coronavirus in Russia, which is more than 10,000 more infections than was reported the day before.
According to the federal operational headquarters for the fight against a new infection, the number of deaths due to coronavirus in Russia increased by 692 per day (a day earlier 684), the number of coronavirus victims for all time is 324 thousand 60.
During the day, 24 thousand 478 people recovered (since the beginning of the spread of infection – 9 million 950 thousand 333).
The top 5 regions with the highest number of new cases of covid are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow region, Nizhny Novgorod region and Sverdlovsk region. In Moscow, over the past 24 hours, 15,987 cases have been detected – this is a new record. In St. Petersburg, 5922 cases of coronavirus infection were detected per day, this is a new maximum since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to the operational headquarters, the spread of the omicron coronavirus strain has already been recorded in 57 regions of Russia. “In the structure of new cases of COVID-19 identified, the delta variant is 52.3%, the omicron variant and other non-dominant strains are 47.7%,” the report says.
In general, since the beginning of the pandemic, almost 11 million people have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Source: Rosbalt

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