The number of deaths from COVID per day fell to a minimum since the beginning of October

Over the past day, 20,638 new cases of CORONAVIRUS infection have been confirmed in Russia, according to the operational headquarters. For the first time since September 22, the number of cases detected per day was less than 21 thousand.

The total number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic has reached 10.499 million.

Also, 912 people died in the country during the day. According to the headquarters, this is the minimum since October 5, when 895 deaths were reported. Since December 23, less than 1,000 deaths per day have been recorded in the country. Most of the deaths per day were detected in Moscow (69), St. Petersburg (51), the Moscow Region (48) and the Krasnoyarsk Territory (34).

The total number of deaths, according to the operational headquarters, has grown to 308.8 thousand. This differs from the calculations of Rosstat, which includes in its statistics those who died from other diseases against the background of covid, as well as those who were found to have the virus after death. According to him, the total number of deaths with coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic has reached almost 625.9 thousand people.