More than 9 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia for the third day in a

In Russia, coronavirus was detected in 9289 people per day, the operational headquarters said. The daily gain keeps above the mark of 9 thousand for the third day in a row.

Most of the infected per day were registered in Moscow - 3241 people. In St. Petersburg, COVID-19 was diagnosed in 846, in the Moscow region — in 750 people. More than a hundred cases of infection per day were also detected in the Rostov, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Saratov, Irkutsk regions and in Yakutia.

In total, 5 million 53 thousand 748 infected people have been registered in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic.

401 people died per day from coronavirus, the total number of victims reached 120.8 thousand, the operational headquarters said. According to Rosstat, from April 2020 to March 2021, 249.7 thousand people died from COVID-19. The agency takes into account cases where the coronavirus has become both the main and indirect cause of death.