More than 104 thousand Siberians became infected with coronavirus

In the regions of Siberia, more than 2.29 thousand patients with coronavirus died. The total number of infected people has exceeded 104 thousand.

A new coronavirus infection was detected in 1,289 residents of Siberia in two days. The total number of infected reached 104,545 people, follows from the data of regional headquarters on September 8-9.

44 patients died. Of these, eight victims each in the Altai Territory and the Omsk Region, seven in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and six each in the Irkutsk and Novosibirsk Regions.

The total number of deceased patients, according to Taiga.info, reached 2297.

Rosstat data shows that authorities do not always report coronavirus-related deaths. Most of all, the statistics could be underestimated in the Omsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk regions and Tuva.

More than 1.04 million cases of coronavirus have been registered in Russia, 18,135 patients have died, about 856,000 people have recovered. In terms of incidence of coronavirus, Russia ranks fourth, behind the United States, Brazil and India.