Coronavirus cases exceed 550 thousand in Russia

Russia confirmed 7,843 new coronavirus infections Wednesday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 553,301, Report says, citing the Task Force of the country.

Over the past 24 hours, 194 people have died, bringing the total toll to 7,478 — a rate considerably lower than in many other countries hit hard by the pandemic.

So far, 304,342 people have recovered in the country.

Moscow has the highest caseload in the country, with 1 065 COVID-19 patients.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China’s Hubei province, and the virus has spread to more than 200 countries and territories since then.

To date, COVID-19 cases surpassed 8,2 million globally, resulting in more than 4,3 million recoveries and over 446,000 deaths.

On February 11, the WHO officially named the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as COVID-19, and on March 11, declared it a pandemic.