Since the beginning of the epidemic, 21,608 cases of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been diagnosed in the country
Over the past day, 21,608 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Russia, according to the operational headquarters to combat the epidemic. A quarter of the patients detected per day (25.8%) did not have clinical manifestations of the disease; in the country as a whole, this figure reaches a third of the detected cases of infection, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said earlier.
The leaders in the number of cases remain Moscow and St. Petersburg, where 5997 and 1667 cases were detected, respectively. For St. Petersburg, this is a new absolute record.
In third place is the Moscow region (729), in the fourth – the Nizhny Novgorod region (421), the Arkhangelsk region closes the five regions with the largest number of cases (340).
439 people died from coronavirus in a day, this is the daily maximum for the entire epidemic. The previous maximum in the number of deaths from COVID per day in Russia was recorded on November 11 – then 432 people died. Thus, the anti-record in the country is being fixed for the second day in a row.
On the morning of November 12, the government instructed Rospotrebnadzor to increase the coverage of testing for COVID-19. The Moscow authorities have already announced that they will increase the number of free tests conducted in the capital by more than 1,000 per day.
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