MOSCOW, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of new COVID-19 cases in Russia has risen by 5,966 over the past 24 hours, bringing its nationwide tally to 74,588, the country’s COVID-19 crisis response centre said.
It also reported 66 new deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll in Russia to 681.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Russia began rising sharply this month, although it had reported far fewer infections than many western European countries in the early stages of the outbreak.
Moscow’s International Medical Cluster said that as many as one in 10 residents may have been infected by COVID-19.
On Wednesday, dozens of Russian communists defied Moscow’s COVID-19 lockdown by marching across Red Square to lay flowers outside Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to mark 150 years since the birth of the Bolshevik leader.
Tests in the wider Moscow region to see if people are carrying coronavirus antibodies suggest that as many as one in 10 residents may have been infected, a government project said.
The results, disclosed by Moscow’s International Medical Cluster, suggest that the novel coronavirus has spread more widely than the official tallies of confirmed infections.
Moscow and the Moscow region around it has reported 44,786 confirmed cases of the virus, suggesting 0.2 per cent of the area’s population of more than 20 million has been infected. — NNN-AGENCIES
