Index – Abroad – For the past eight days, the number of people infected in Russia has increased by 10,000 per day.

In Russia, the number of confirmed coronavirus infections increased from 11,012 to 209,688 in the last day, according to official data released Sunday; The eighth day of the daily increase now exceeds 10,000, writes MTI.

At the same time, in terms of daily growth rates, it showed the lowest value, 5.5 percent. In 42.4 percent of newly diagnosed infections, the course of Covid-19 disease is asymptomatic. Of the 85 Russian regions, the number of infected exceeds 33 per thousand.

The number of active cases increased from 8,534 to 173,476, the number of deaths from 88 in 1915, and the number of cases recovered from 2,390 to 34,306.

More than half of the national daily increase, 5,551 people, was detected in Moscow, increasing the number of known infections to 109,740. The number of active cases in the capital increased by 94,882, the number of deaths from 58 to 1,068, and the number of recovered from 1011 to 13,790.

The number of tests carried out so far since the epidemic began exceeded 5.4 million on Sunday. 226.4 thousand people underwent Covid-19 screening in the last day. 243.4 thousand people are being monitored on suspicion of infection.

(Cover image: CT scan in a Moscow hospital on May 9, 2020. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / TASS / Getty Images)

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