MOSCOW, June 16 (Sputnik) - Russia has registered 8,248 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours (8,246 yesterday), bringing the overall tally to 545,458, the national coronavirus response centre said on Tuesday.
"Over the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 8,248 COVID-19 cases in 82 regions, of which 2,950 (35.8 percent) have been detected with people showing no clinical symptoms", the response centre said in a statement.
Russia has so far recorded 545,458 COVID-19 cases in 85 regions (+1.5 percent), the centre added.
Of the new cases, 1,416 were registered in Moscow, 694 in the Moscow Region, and 319 in the Irkutsk Region (compared to yesterday's 1,359, 689, and 127, respectively).
The country's COVID-19 death toll has grown by 193 (143 yesterday) to 7,248.
As many as 9,767 COVID-19 patients have recovered across the country (4,489 yesterday), bringing the total number of cured people to 294,306.