Russia has registered 39,160 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours which is the lowest number over the past week with the total number of infections reaching 8,873,655 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, Trend reports with reference to TASS.
According to the crisis center, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.44%.
In the past 24-hour period, 2,818 new cases were uncovered in the Moscow Region, along with 2,680 new infections in St. Petersburg. Also, during this timeframe, 793 cases - in the Voronezh Region, and 778 new cases were detected in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
All in all, at present, 1,004,844 patients are still undergoing treatment in Russia.