Russia has registered 29,409 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, the second highest number since the beginning of the pandemic with the total number of infections reaching 7,804,774 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Monday.
According to the crisis center, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.38%.
In the past 24-hour period, 2,184 new cases were uncovered in the Moscow Region, along with 705 new infections in the Samara Region. Also, during this timeframe, 658 new cases were discovered in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 633 cases - in the Voronezh Region, and 610 cases were detected in Bashkortostan.
All in all, at present, 713,823 patients are still undergoing treatment in Russia.