Moscow-Sana
Russia recorded 1,211 deaths and 38,420 new infections with the Corona virus during the past 24 hours, a decline in the number of daily infections below the threshold of 39,000, with the death toll continuing to rise.
And the Special Operations Center for Combating the Corona Epidemic in Russia stated in its report today that the total deaths in the country amounted to 256597, while the total number of infections reached nine million and 109,094 since the beginning of the pandemic.
In turn, the Russian Minister of Health, Mikhail Murashko, confirmed that the rate of infection with the Corona virus decreased by 7.5 percent during the past week.
"Over the course of the week, a 7.5 percent decrease in the infection rate was recorded, while there are still one million and 274,000 active cases that are monitored by health care workers," TASS news agency quoted Murashko as saying during the meeting of the Governmental Coordination Council to Combat Corona. Against the Corona virus, it increased by 6 percent during the past week, as more than 3.2 million people received a dose of the vaccine.
Yesterday, Russia recorded 1,219 deaths and 38,823 new infections with the virus.