Moscow identified 1,050 new cases of coronavirus in a single day, the highest number since June 23, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said Thursday.
The daily increase accelerated to 0.4%, while 970 new cases were reported in the city yesterday.
In the past 24 hours, 1,304 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals, while 15 people died from coronavirus-related causes.
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 6,595 in the past day, a record high since July 12.
According to its data, in the past six days, the daily growth did not exceed 0.6%. Russia’s case tally reached 1,128,836.
Some 215 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in St. Petersburg, 205 in the Moscow Region, 189 in the Rostov Region, 162 in the Voronezh Region and 160 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The lowest growth rates in the past day were recorded in the Chukotka Autonomous Region, the Chechen Republic (0.2%), the Moscow Region, the Smolensk Region, the Tula Region, Tatarstan and the Chuvash Republic (0.3%).
Currently, 179,059 people are undergoing treatment for the coronavirus in Russia, TASS reported.
The number of COVID-19 fatalities in Russia over the past 24 hours increased by 149, pushing the total to 19,948.
The number of coronavirus patients discharged over the past 24 hours in Russia has increased by 6,130, bringing the total to 929,829.
