Russia’s Tally of Coronavirus Cases Tops 800K

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 5,811 to 800,849 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday, TASS reported.

The daily coronavirus growth rate is about 0.7%, the lowest level since April 23.

The lowest coronavirus growth rates were in the Chukotka autonomous region (0%), the Moscow region (0.2%), Moscow (0.3%), the Kaluga region (0.3%), the Kabardino-Balkaria region (0.3%), the Bryansk region (0.3%), the Smolensk region (0.3%) and the Lipetsk region (0.3%).

As many as 645 new cases were recorded in Moscow in the past day, 248 in the Sverdlovsk region, 196 in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region, 194 in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and 181 in St. Petersburg.

There are currently 199,029 active coronavirus cases in Russia.