Russia has registered 33,899 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, with the total number of infections reaching 10,899,411 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, Trend reports with reference to TASS.
The absolute growth of new infections is the highest since November 27, 2021. According to the crisis center, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.31%.
In the past 24-hour period, 8,795 new cases were uncovered in Moscow, along with 4,382 new infections in St. Petersburg and 2,626 infections in the Moscow Region. Also, during this timeframe, 881 new cases were discovered in the Nizhny Novgorod Region (a record high for this region since the beginning of the pandemic), 730 cases - in the Krasnodar Region, and 628 new cases were detected in the Sverdlovsk Region.
All in all, at present, 650,180 patients are still undergoing treatment in Russia.