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11
September
2021

Russia records 18,891 COVID-19 cases, 796 deaths over past 24 hours – coronavirus response HQ

MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) – The daily growth of new COVID-19 cases in Russia has reached 18,891, and 796 people have died over the past day, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a bulletin on Saturday.

"Russia has recorded 18,891 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the 85 regions over the past 24 hours, including 1,425 cases (7.5%) identified proactively, without any clinical symptoms," the bulletin said.

This figure is 550 cases higher than the number of cases recorded in Russia on Friday, 18,341.

A small increase in cases has been recorded in Moscow, 1,940 cases, compared to 1,566 cases recorded on Friday. St. Petersburg recorded 1,629 COVID-19 cases over the past day compared to 1,504 on Friday.

As many as 796 people have died from COVID-19 over the past day. Moscow recorded the highest number of deaths, 46, St. Petersburg 39, and the Sverdlovsk region 36.

The cumulative number of new coronavirus cases recorded in Russia has reached 67,121,516 in the past day. Over the entire period of the pandemic, 191,962 people have died in Russia. As many as 6,375,160 patients have been discharged from hospitals, including 17,888 over the past day. Moscow recorded 1,317 recoveries over the past 24 hours.