Russia Records 5,400 Cases of Coronavirus

The number of the coronavirus infections in Russia has increased by 5,482 in the past 24 hours with the total number of infections reaching 839,981, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS reported.

According to the data, the daily growth hasn’t surpassed 0.7% for 10 days.

The lowest growth rates over the past 24 hours were registered in the Chukotka Autonomous Area (0%), the Republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia (0.2%), the Moscow Region (0.2%), Moscow (0.3%), the Kaluga Region (0.3%), the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (0.3%), the Republic of North Ossetia (0.3%), the Lipetsk Region (0.3%), the Transbaikal Region (0.3%), and Sevastopol (0.3%).

695 new cases were detected in Moscow, 210 – in the Sverdlovsk Region, 171 cases – in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, 159 – in St. Petersburg, and 150 cases were detected in the Moscow Region.

Currently there are 187,608 cases of infection in Russia.