Russia’s coronavirus case tally rose by 26,509 in the past day to 2,734,454, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said.
In the past two days the growth rate did not exceed 1%.
The lowest growth rates in the past 24 hours were recorded in the Republics of Tuva and Altai, the Nenets Autonomous Region (0.4%), the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, the Mari El Republic, the Magadan and Novosibirsk Regions (0.6%).
Moscow confirmed 5,028 new COVID-19 cases. Some 3,758 coronavirus cases were registered in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, 1,477 in the Moscow Region, 492 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 397 in the Arkhangelsk Region and 395 in the Sverdlovsk Region.
According to the crisis center, currently, as many as 509,790 people are ill in Russia, TASS reported.
"Some 579,177 people remain under medical supervision in Russia," the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing reported.
More than 83.8 mln COVID-19 tests have been carried out, including 427,000 tests in the past day, according to the sanitary watchdog.
