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More than 7.2 thousand Siberians fell ill with coronavirus
More than 7.2 thousand people fell ill with coronavirus in the regions of Siberia. Russia has reached the second or third place in the world in terms of the number of cases of coronavirus, before that, Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled the “non-working days” regime.
Russia has confirmed 9,974 new cases of coronavirus, the federal operational headquarters said on May 14. The leader among the regions of Siberia was the Novosibirsk region with 76 positive tests per day.
In the Altai Territory and Tuva, 39 cases were confirmed each, in the Omsk Region — 34, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory — 21, in the Omsk Region — 20, in Tomsk — nine, in Khakassia — 8, in the Republic of Altai — three.
In Transbaikalia, according to the regional headquarters, 22 new cases have been confirmed. In Kuzbass, 14 diagnoses were made, according to the Telegram channel of Governor Sergei Tsivilev.
Earlier it became known about new cases in the Irkutsk region , Buryatia and the Novosibirsk region. Thus, the total number of cases in the regions of Siberia has reached 7245. 79 deaths are known (72 people, according to the embassy, died in the Siberian Federal District. In addition, six died in Buryatia and one in Transbaikalia, which formally belong to the Far Eastern Federal District) .
In Russia, more than 252.2 thousand fell ill. 2305 people died, 43.5 thousand recovered. The country, together with Spain, took second or third place in the world in terms of the number of cases after the United States. Against this background, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin decided to remove the federal regime of "non-working days" from May 12, transferring all the same restrictions to the level of regions.
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 4.26 million, more than 291.9 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 (82.3 thousand). A significant number of deaths were also recorded in Italy (30.9 thousand), Spain (26.9 thousand), France (26.9 thousand), Great Britain (32.7 thousand), Belgium (8.7 thousand). ), Brazil (12.4 thousand), Germany (7.7 thousand) and Iran (6.7 thousand) . Around 1.5 million people have recovered worldwide.