In Russia, more than 25 thousand new cases of coronavirus were identified - for the first time since the beginning of January

Over the past day, 25,142 new cases of coronavirus have registered in Russia over the past day, the Federal Operational Headquarters reports.

This is the maximum daily increase in new cases from January 2, when 26,301 a new patient with Covid-19 was revealed per day.

The number of dead over the past day was 663 people. This is less than the day before, when a record number of deaths from the beginning of the pandemic was recorded - 697 people per day.

Most of the new patients with Covid-19 in Moscow (7624 people), the Moscow region (2696), St. Petersburg (1784), Nizhny Novgorod (432) and Voronezh (359) regions.

In total, 5,610,941 coronavirus cases have been revealed in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the opera , 137 925 infected died, 5 068 901 the patient recovered (of which 15,484 - over the past day).