Moscow Region reports highest daily number of COVID-19 infections

The number of coronavirus infections in the Moscow Region reached 1,800 in the past 24 hours, the record-high number reported since the pandemic began, regional Health Minister Svetlana Strigunkova said at a Moscow Region government meeting on Monday.

"In the past week, the number of patients with the virus [diagnosis] confirmed by laboratories rose by 3%, or 8,500 people," TASS cited her as saying.

"The number of daily [case] detections reached 1,800. It is our absolute record. We did not have this increase in the infections identified daily either in the first or the second waves," Strigunkova added.