In Russia, 8.7 thousand people infected with COVID were detected per day

According to the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus, over the past day in Russia, 8,709 new cases of the disease have been detected in 85 regions.

The last time more than 9 thousand cases were detected in the country on May 20. Then the coronavirus was found in 9232 people. Since mid-March, cases of COVID-19 infection have been steadily recorded in the country in the range from 8 thousand to just over 9 thousand.

The total number of people infected in Russia has reached 4 million 992 thousand 554 people, of which more than 4.6 million have been cured. Over the past day, cases of infection were registered in all 85 regions of Russia. Most of the infected were in Moscow (2653) , St. Irkutsk (113) regions.

Over the past 24 hours, 386 people have died in Russia due to COVID-19. The total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the headquarters, was 118,125. Most of them since the beginning of the spread of infection have been recorded in Moscow (19,592), St. In its statistics, the headquarters takes into account only those cases where the coronavirus has become the main cause of death.