Russia has documented 9,794 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the overall case count to 4,370,617, the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday.
The relative daily increase rate has reached 0.22%.
Another 1,610 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Moscow in the past 24 hours. So far, 996,889 people in the Russian capital have got infected.
According to the crisis center, the growth rate stands at 0.16%. The authorities reported 1,281 COVID-19 cases a day earlier.
Fifty-six people died in the past 24 hours, with 15,657 fatalities recorded since the start of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, 1,605 patients were discharged, recoveries have reached 917,809.
Currently, 63,423 people in Moscow continue treatment, TASS reported.
In the past 24 hours, 957 cases were documented in St. Petersburg, 476 in the Moscow Region, 375 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 252 in the Samara Region, 243 in the Voronezh Region.
Currently, there are 306,368 active cases of COVID-19 in Russia.
