Russia sets coronavirus death record again

Russia recorded 857 deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, marking a new high for the entire pandemic and renewing the previous day’s record, where 852 deaths were reported, according to health officials.

The largest number of patients died in Moscow, the main focus of the pandemic in Russia, where 65 people died, followed by St. Petersburg, with 60 deaths.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told his daily press conference that the Russian presidency regrets “the trend of increasing coronavirus infections” and stressed that the worst-affected areas of Russia “are already taking hardships. strong action “in this regard.

“I would like to remind you that the regions have specific prerogatives in this regard. We see that some regions have already imposed the use of QR codes, others are preparing to set up this system, they limit massive activities and the educational process, “he added. noted.

Since the start of the pandemic in the country, 206,388 people have died, although official statistics on excessive deaths have tripled that figure.

During the last day in Russia they were diagnosed 22,430 COVID 19 cases, of which 1,933 (8.6%) were asymptomatic.

In all, Russia has already added 7,487,138 cases of infectious disease since the start of the pandemic.

Russia is today the fourth country with the most infections in the world, behind the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

According to Gogov.ru, a website that offers updated and detailed data by region on the number of vaccines administered in the country, to date 47.9 million people have been vaccinated (32.8% of the population) with at minus one dose of the virus vaccine. .

In total, 42 million Russians (28.8% of the population) were vaccinated with the complete regimen.