Russia confirmed 8,709 COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing the total caseload to 4,992,554, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday, TASS reports.
The number of cases grew 0.17% in relative terms. The lowest daily growth rates were seen in the Jewish Autonomous Region (0.02%), the Republic of Tuva (0.04%), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, the Kamchatka Region, the Magadan Region and the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (0.05% each).
In the past 24-hour period, 833 new cases were reported in St. Petersburg, along with 775 new infections in the Moscow Region. Also, during this timeframe, 197 new cases were recorded in the Rostov Region, 143 new infections in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, and 143 cases - in the Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod regions each.
All in all, at present, 263,964 patients are still undergoing treatment in Russia.
