Russia registers 27,250 new Covid-19 cases, 549 deaths, 24,447 recoveries in past 24 hours - HQ

MOSCOW : - Russia registered 27,250 new Covid-19 cases and 549 coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Over the past day, 27,250 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in 85 regions of Russia, including 4,058 active asymptomatic cases (14.9%)," the headquarters said.

Morbidity remains the highest in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Moscow region.

According to the headquarters, the Russian capital registered 5,652 new Covid-19 cases, as well as 73 deaths and 5,228 recoveries in the past 24 hours.

By now, Russia has seen a total of 2,933,763 Covid-19 cases, including 52,461 deaths and 2,343,967 recoveries, among them 24,447 patients discharged from hospitals over the past day.

The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) said on Wednesday that Russia had performed over 87 million coronavirus tests to date, including 393,000 over the past day. As many as 641,563 people remain under medical observation.

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