Coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 4,852 in the past twenty-four hours to 956,749, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday, TASS reports.
The daily growth in COVID-19 cases has been within 0.5% in the past eight days, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said.
Moscow registered 611 new coronavirus cases in the past twenty-four hours, the lowest figure since July 23. The daily growth in new coronavirus cases slowed to 0.2% for the first time since the start of the pandemic, TASS calculations show.
The slowest growth in new coronavirus cases was also registered in the Nenets and Chukotka Autonomous Regions (0% each), the Moscow Region (0.2%), the Lipetsk, Smolensk, Tambov and Tula Regions, the Jewish Autonomous Region and some other regions (0.3%).
The number of active cases, i.e. patients continuing their medical treatment at present, equaled 169,727 or 17.7% of all infected people.
Coronavirus recoveries in Russia grew by 3,162 in the past twenty-four hours to 770,639, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported.
Recoveries account for about 80.6% of all infected people, the latest data indicate.
