The number of hospitalized with COVID per day fell almost twice

The number of detected infections remained at the same level as the day before.but much fewer patients were admitted to the hospitals

Over the past day, 5,447 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Russia, 1,308 people have been hospitalized, the operational headquarters reports. A day earlier, on May 7, 5.5 thousand cases of infection were detected, while 2562 people were hospitalized, that is, almost twice as many.

At the same time, on May 5, the number of hospitalized patients, on the contrary, doubled.

According to the operational headquarters, 118 Russians have died from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, a day earlier - 132 people.

According to the number of recorded cases of coronavirus infection, according to data published on May 8, Moscow is in first place (396 cases), St. Petersburg is second (373 cases), Moscow Region is third (309 cases), followed by Tatarstan (196 cases). cases) and the Volgograd region (173 cases).

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In total, more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 infection have been detected in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic, and more than 376,000 people have died, according to the operations headquarters. According to Rosstat data in April, more than 660,000 people have died directly from the coronavirus in Russia since April 2020 since April 2020.

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Earlier, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko said that a new wave of COVID-19 cases is possible in Russia in June. “Because the decline [in incidence] has slowed somewhat now, and we know from previous periods that when the incidence slows down, there is a risk of a new rise,” he said. Experts interviewed by RBC give similar forecasts. According to them, a new wave of coronavirus will begin in June-July. They believe that it can be caused by the spread of a subspecies of the omicron BA.2 - the "stealth omicron".

How the number of hospitalizations with coronavirus in Russia changes May 9 The number of hospitalized and diagnosed cases per day. The operational headquarters began to provide open regular statistics on hospitalizations from January 20, 2022 Created with Highcharts 8.2.2