About 70 patients with coronavirus died in the regions of Siberia

The number of patients with coronavirus who died in the regions of Siberia has approached 70. The leaders remain the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Novosibirsk Region.

67 patients with coronavirus died in the regions of Siberia, according to the data of the federal operational headquarters for combating infection on May 11.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Novosibirsk Region - 15 deaths each. In Khakassia - eight, in the Omsk and Kemerovo regions - seven each, in Buryatia - five, in the Irkutsk region - four, in the Tomsk region and the Altai Territory - three each.

The total number of cases in the regions of Siberia has reached 5852.

More than 221.3 thousand people fell ill in Russia. 2009 people died, 39.8 thousand recovered. The country ranked third in the world in terms of the number of cases after the USA and Spain

At the end of December 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, a large commercial and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease was identified only on January 7, 2020 - this is a previously unknown type of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (the disease it causes was called COVID-19).

In the world, according to the latest data , the number of cases has exceeded 4.1 million, more than 282 thousand people have died. The epidemic has affected 187 countries and territories. At first, the main number of deaths was in China (4.6 thousand people), but according to this indicator, the PRC has already overtaken other countries. The United States is in the lead (79.5 thousand). A significant number of deaths were also recorded in Italy (30.5 thousand), Spain (26.6 thousand), France (26.3 thousand), Great Britain (31.9 thousand), Belgium (8.6 thousand). ), Brazil (11.1 thousand), Germany (7.5 thousand) and Iran (6.5 thousand) . More than 1.4 million people have recovered worldwide.