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The daily increase in COVID-19 cases registered on Saturday is the highest in the country since January 21, and the death rate, since the beginning of the year.
The incidence of coronavirus infection in Russia has been increasing in recent days. Doctors attribute this situation to the spread of a new, more contagious strain of coronavirus, Delta.
On Saturday, the highest number of new deaths from COVID-19 was recorded in St. Petersburg, where 107 people died. This daily death rate was highest in Russia’s second-largest city and in any other region of the country since the pandemic began.
In Moscow, the region most affected by the coronavirus epidemic in Russia since its inception, 8,457 new cases of coronavirus infection have been identified in the last day and 96 people have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 5,430,753 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Russia and 132,683 infected people have died. 4,943,986 patients recovered from coronavirus infection, including 14,347 the day before.
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