More than 1 thousand Irkutans fell ill with coronavirus

The number infected with coronavirus continues to grow sharply in the Irkutsk region. The total number of cases exceeded 1 thousand.

120 new cases of coronavirus are confirmed in the Irkutsk region, the operational headquarters of the region on May 23 reports. This is a record since the beginning of the pandemic.

The total number of infected reached 1078. 17 people died, 219 recovered.

Thus, the number of coronavirus in the regions of Siberia reached 12058. It is known about 132 deaths of patients. More than 326.4 thousand cases are registered in Russia. 3249 people died, recovered 99.8 thousand.

The country entered the second in the world in the number of those who sick after the United States, but the mortality officially declared by the authorities is much lower than in other states. Against this background, Russian President 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.

In late December 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about the outbreak of pneumonia in Jun, a large shopping and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease was established only on January 7, 2020-this is the previously unknown type of coronavirus SARS-COV-2 (the disease called by him was called Covid-19).

In the world, according to the latest data , the number of cases exceeded 5.21 million, more than 332.9 thousand people died. The epidemic affected 187 countries and territories. At first, the main number of the dead accounted for China (4.6 thousand people), but in this indicator the PRC has already been overtaken by other countries. The United States leads (96 thousand). A significant number of deaths were also recorded in Italy (32.6 thousand), Spain (28.6 thousand), France (28.2 thousand), Great Britain (36.4 thousand), Belgium (9.2 thousand), Brazil (21 thousand), Germany (8.2 thousand) and Iran (7.2 thousand). About 2 million people recovered all over the world.