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Russia Records More Than 37 Thousand Corona Infections, Deaths Exceeds 1250 within Day for First Time


Thu 18 Nov 2021 | 05:21 PM
Mohamed Wadie

Russia witnesses a number of daily infections with Covid-19 exceeding 37 thousand and an unprecedented increase in the number of deaths due to the pandemic, the reports said on Thursday.

On Thursday, the operating room for combating the outbreak for Covid-19 announced that they have monitored, during the past 24 hours, 37.374 new infections, compared to 36,626 injuries the previous day.

Moscow has the largest number of infections (4062 cases). The second-largest number of infections is Saint Petersburg (2645 cases), Samara (1781 cases), and Moscow District (1407 cases).

Russia has witnessed an unprecedented leap in the number of deaths for the second day in a row, with 1251 deaths recorded last day, compared to 1247 deaths yesterday.

Russia has recorded 36,414 patients who have recovered from Covid-19.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has recorded a total of 9 million and 219,912 confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 260,335 deaths and 7 million and 919,250 cases of recovery.

To date, more than 218.8 million laboratory tests have been carried out in Russia to diagnose Corona infections; 561 thousand of them were during the last 24 hours.

To date, more than 63.1 million people in Russia have received the first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, and more than 57.9 million of them have completed their vaccination by taking the second dose. The level of herd immunity in the country is estimated at 49%.

Contributed by: Israa Farhan