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Russia recorded 22,702 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest number reached since the start of the pandemic, and added 391 more deaths from the disease, although authorities there have promised imminent mass production of its two vaccinations registered.
“In the last 24 hours they have confirmed 22,702 new cases in 85 regions, including 5,730 (25.2%) asymptomatic ”, indicates the press release reproduced by the agency Sputnik.
With a total of 1,903,253 positive cases of coronavirus, which represents an increase of 1.2% compared to the previous day, Russia remains the fifth most affected by the pandemic behind the United States, India, Brazil and France.
Most of the new infections were detected in the Russian capital (6,427), in Saint Petersburg (1,852) and in the province of Moscow (786).
With the death of 391 patients In the past day, the total number of deaths from Covid-19 in the country rose to 32,834.
The figure of restored reached the 1,425,529, with 18,626 people who were released in the past 24 hours.
Russia currently has two vaccines already registered to fight the coronavirus, Sputnik V Yes EpiVacCorona, although the mass production of one of them has not yet started. In the case of Sputnik V, the acquisition of which is negotiated by the Argentine government, he obtained 92% effective according to the preliminary results of the phase 3 study published this week and did not record “unexpected side effects”, although it generates a lot of controversial in the international scientific sphere since most of the studies have not been published in specialized journals, with the exception of a work published in the journal The Lancet which has been criticized for not having sufficient rigor for this type of investigation.
Anyway, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the start of production of this vaccine “is a matter of weeks“reproduced the press agency Tlam.
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