The Samara region came in third after Moscow and St. Petersburg in terms of the number of new cases of CORONAVIRUS per day, follows from the data of the federal operational headquarters for combating covid-19 .
Over the past day, 1785 cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in the region. 31 people died from the infection, 978 patients recovered, the operational headquarters said.
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The day before, 1,793 cases of infection were detected in the Samara region; on November 12, a daily record was set since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic - 1,798 cases of infection.
On November 15, the governor of the Samara region, Dmitry Azarov, said that a decrease in the rate of increase in the incidence rate and stabilization of indicators were recorded in the region over the past week, although so far at high numbers, the local portal 63.ru reported his words.