MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has registered 8,985 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours (8,984 yesterday), the daily increase has fallen to 1.9 percent and the total count has reached 476,658, the national coronavirus response centre said on Monday.
"Over the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 8,985 COVID-19 cases in 83 regions, of which 3,293 (36.6 percent) have been detected with people showing no clinical symptoms", the response centre said in a statement.
Russia has so far recorded 476,658 COVID-19 cases in 85 regions (+1.9 percent), the centre added.
Of the new cases, 2,001 were registered in Moscow, 751 in the Moscow Region, and 326 in St. Petersburg (compared to yesterday's 1,956, 754, and 340, respectively).
The country's COVID-19 death toll has grown by 112 (134 yesterday) to 5,971.
As many as 3,957 COVID-19 patients have recovered across the country (5,343 yesterday), bringing the total number of cured people to 230,688.
Over 13 million tests to detect COVID-19 have been conducted in the country since the beginning of the outbreak, and 320,000 suspected virus carriers across Russia remain under medical observation, Russian public health watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said.
