Russia Documents 12,953 Daily COVID-19 Cases

The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 12,953, TASS reports. The total number of infections has reached 4,151,984, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Saturday.

According to the crisis center, the relative increase in new infections amounts to 0.31%.

The lowest daily growth rates were registered in the Republic of Tuva (0.03%), the Jewish Autonomous Region (0.07%), and the Nenets Autonomous Region (0.1%).

Some 1,092 new cases over the past 24 hours have been detected in St. Petersburg, 690 – in the Moscow Region, 413 cases – in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 337 – in the Voronezh Region, 315 – in the Rostov Region, and 290 cases have been detected in the Samara Region.

In all, currently 371,675 patients continue treatment in Russia.