The daily increase in Russia's COVID-19 cases dropped to 8,926. Thus, the total tally of the country reached 290,678, Report says, citing TASS.
Russia's coronavirus taskforce said the country had recorded 8,926 COVID-19 cases in 81 regions, including 3,577 active cases (40.1%) without clinical manifestations over the past 24 hours.
91 people with positive coronavirus died in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 2,722.
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in China's Wuhan, and the causative agent is a new type of coronavirus officially named COVID-19.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus a pandemic.