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Russia Reports 771 New COVID-19 Cases


Thu 02 Apr 2020 | 02:00 PM
NaDa Mustafa

Russia has announced the registration of 771 new Coronavirus cases, over the past 24 hours, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 3,548.

Moreover, the death toll from the disease increased by six to 30.

Russia introduced an indefinite quarantine for all residents starting last Monday, enforced by a “smart monitoring” system that observers say will employ the city’s vast network of facial-recognition cameras, after initally only ordering residents over 65 to self-isolate.

Russia’s prime minister, who had closed national land and maritime borders a day earlier, has asked Russia’s other regions to enact similar lockdown measures.

President Vladimir Putin declared this week to be a nationwide paid “non-working” week in an effort to encourage Russians to stay home and slow the spread of the pandemic that has infected more than 720,000 people and killed more than 33,000 worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease COVID-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.

Transmission of virus between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.