In Russia, the second day in a row the number of new cases of COVID-19 decreased

Over the past day, 23,909 new cases of CORONAVIRUS infection have been detected in RUSSIA, according to the data of the operational headquarters for combating this disease.

3411 people were hospitalized, 59 died.

The day before, on August 15, the number of detected cases per day amounted to more than 25 thousand, that is, on August 16, it decreased by more than 5%. The peak in the number of daily infections over the past almost five months occurred on August 14, when the number of new cases for the previous day reached about 29 thousand people.

Most cases of infection in 24 hours were detected in Moscow (5530) and St. Petersburg (3776). In other regions, there are no more than 1 thousand cases, less than a hundred cases - in 33 subjects.

In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of detected cases is more than 18 million 930 thousand, more than 383 thousand people have died. Rosstat, which takes into account both deaths from covid-19 directly and cases where the disease was diagnosed at the time of death, indicates that more than 820 thousand people have died since the beginning of the pandemic until July of this year.

Up-to-date data on coronavirus in Russia and the world. Infographic Society

The HEAD of the Ministry of HEALTH, Mikhail Murashko, called the rise in the incidence in the country the “next stage” of the pandemic and urged Russians to again observe the mask regime and re-vaccinate. In some regions, they have already decided to return the requirement to wear masks in public places (for example, in Buryatia), in other regions (St. Petersburg, the Altai Republic), the measure is advisory in nature. Calls for revaccination come against the background of a significant decrease in the level of herd immunity in the country, to 7.4%.

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