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Russia registers 39,849 new COVID-19 cases, new all-time high of 1,163 deaths in past 24 hours – HQ
MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax) – Russia has registered 39,849 new cases of COVID-19 and a new all-time high of 1,163 deaths, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Friday.
"Over the past day, 39,849 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in 85 regions of Russia, including 3,442 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (8.6%)," the headquarters said.
Russia has seen a new all-time high of 1,163 deaths from COVID-19, while the previous record of 1,159 deaths was reported on Thursday. The most patients have died in Moscow (93), St. Petersburg (76), and Krasnodar Territory and Moscow region (42 in each).
Meanwhile, daily incidence has decreased slightly since Thursday, when Russia saw a record 40,096 infections. There has been a relevant decline in the number of cases in Moscow (7,511 from 8,440 on Thursday) and the Moscow region (2,556 from 2,639 the day before). Meanwhile, the number of cases has grown from 3,186 to 3,452 in St. Petersburg over the past day. On the whole, the coronavirus morbidity curve has been on the rise in practically all regions of Russia.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in Russia, it has registered a total of 8,432,546 cases of COVID-19, 236,220 deaths, and 7,302,515 recoveries, including 30,462 persons discharged from hospital over the past day, 5,134 of them in Moscow.
Russian consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said on Friday that Russia has performed more than 207.7 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests to date, including 701,000 over the past day. As many as 1,924,086 people remain under medical observation.
