В России впервые зафиксировали свыше 63 тыс. случаев COVID-19 за сутки

In Russia, 63,205 new cases of CORONAVIRUS infection were registered over the past day, according to the data of the operational headquarters.

This is the maximum since the beginning of the spread of the virus in Russia, the previous record was recorded the day before - 57,212 cases. The total number of known cases in the country exceeds 11 million and amounts to 11,108,191.

Over the past 24 hours, 6,211 people have been hospitalized in Russia due to the coronavirus. This is 37.3% less than the day before. At the same time, the headquarters noted that in 12 regions the number of hospitalizations increased.

Moscow provided the maximum daily increase in infected people - over the past 24 hours, 17,528 new cases have become known there. This is also a new record for the region, beating the previous high set the day before (16,094). In total, 2.17 million infections were detected in the capital. In St. Petersburg , 9535 people passed a positive test for coronavirus per day, since the beginning of the pandemic, 921.7 thousand cases have become known in the region. In third place in terms of daily growth was the Moscow region - there the number of infections increased by 7056. In total, 693 thousand patients with COVID-19 were detected in the Moscow region.