Russia confirmed 20,498 new coronavirus cases in the past day, and the daily tally surpassed 20,000 in the past three days, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS reports.
The total caseload climbed to 1,774,334. The average growth rate did not exceed 1.2% in the past three days.
The lowest growth rate was recorded in the Chukotka Autonomous Region (0%), Dagestan (0.5%) and the Chuvash Republic (0.6%). Moscow confirmed 5,751 new COVID-19 cases and St. Petersburg saw a new record high of 1,331 cases. Some 644 cases were recorded in the Moscow Region, 429 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and 350 in the Arkhangelsk Region.
Currently, 419,378 people are ill in Russia.
