Russia reports 9,021 daily COVID-19 cases

Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 9,021 in the past 24 hours reaching 4,572,077, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday, TASS reports. 

The relative growth rate stands at 0.2%.

The lowest daily growth rates were recorded in the Chukotka Autonomous Area (0%), the Magadan Region, the Altai and Tuva regions (0.01% each) and the Jewish Autonomous Region (0.05%).

Another 717 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in St. Petersburg, 594 in the Moscow Region, 274 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 242 in the Rostov Region and 201 in the Samara Region.Currently, 276,191 people in Russia continue treatment.

Russia’s coronavirus deaths grew by 384 in the past 24 hours compared to 400 fatalities confirmed a day earlier, 100,017 people have died since the start of the pandemic.

The conditional mortality rate has risen to 2.19%, as follows from the data provided by the crisis center.

In particular, 36 fatalities were recorded in St. Petersburg, 24 in the Rostov Region, 16 in the Leningrad Region, 12 in the Krasnodar Region, while the Moscow and Tula regions reported 11 fatalities each.