Russia reports 5,205 COVID-19 cases in one day
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 5,205 in the past 24 hours, the total number of infected people has reached 1,020,310, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday, according to TASS news agency.
According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate does not exceed 0.5% for three weeks in a row.
The lowest daily growth rates were recorded in the Nenets autonomous region (0%), the Moscow region (0.2%), Moscow, the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, the Tula and Smolensk regions, Tuva and Chechnya (0.3% each).
Another 671 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 195 in St. Petersburg, 168 in the Moscow region, 154 in the Nizhny Novgorod region and 144 in the Rostov region, the source said.