Russia Recorded Less than 5,000 Coronavirus Cases in Past 24 Hours

The number of coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 4,829 in the past 24 hours, the total number of infected people has reached 980,405, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS reported.

According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate does not exceed 0.5% for 13 days in a row.

The lowest daily growth rates were recorded in the Nenets autonomous region (0%), the Moscow region and Chechnya (0.2%), Moscow, the Tuva and Kamchatka regions, the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district, Kabardino-Balkaria, the Bryansk, Tambov, Smolensk and Tula regions (0.3% each).

Another 654 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 187 in St. Petersburg, 150 in the Moscow region, 133 in the Nizhny Novgorod region and 132 in the Rostov region.

A total of 165,025 people are currently undergoing treatment in Russia.