
Over the past day, 6,509 new cases of coronavirus infection in 85 regions have been confirmed in Russia, the operational headquarters reports . The total number of identified cases of infection in the country reached 707 301.
176 lethal cases were recorded per day. For the entire period, 10,843 people died from coronavirus in the country.
Most of the new cases in Moscow-568, in St. Petersburg-292, the Sverdlovsk region-276, Khanty-Mansiysk AO-265.
Over the past day, 8,805 people were discharged, the total number of recovered patients increased to 481,316.
The Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of an unknown virus on December 31. The virus was discovered in Jun-a large shopping and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease is coronavirus 2019-ncov. On March 11, the World Health Organization called the current situation with Coronavirus Pandemia.