Russia has registered 22,430 new cases of COVID-19 and a new all-time high of 857 deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Sept. 29.
“Over the past day, 22,430 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in 85 regions of Russia, including 1,933 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (8.6%),” the headquarters said.
Russia has seen a new all-time high of 857 deaths in the past 24 hours. The mortality rate began growing last week: 828 deaths were reported on September 24, compared to 852 on September 28.
The most patients have died in Moscow (65), St. Petersburg (60), and the Sverdlovsk region (41).
Morbidity levels have also grown by 871 cases from 21,559 the day before.
Growth has been reported in all big cities and agglomerations, including Moscow (3,004 new cases), St. Petersburg (1,933), and the Moscow region (1,223).
Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia, it has registered a total of 7,487,138 cases of COVID-19, 206,388 deaths, and 6,653,941 recoveries, including 18,456 recoveries over the past day, among them 1,938 in Moscow.
Russian consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Wednesday that Russia has performed more than 191 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests to date, including 505,000 over the past day. As many as 1,282,541 people remain under medical observation.
