Russia’s coronavirus cases near 400,000
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 8,952 to 396,575 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Saturday, according to TASS news agency report.
That said, the total number of cases has increased by 2.3%. At the same time, the number of coronavirus recoveries has risen by 8,212 (5.1%) to 167,469.
Another 735 cases have been confirmed in the Moscow region, 365 in St. Petersburg, 289 in the Nizhny Novgorod, 261 in the Sverdlovsk region.
Meanwhile, the the coronavirus death toll rose by 181 to 4,555 in the past day, the source said. As many as 232 coronavirus deaths were reported on Friday, the highest number since the beginning of the outbreak.