Russia’s COVID-19 tally surpasses 155,000

The number of new coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 10,102 over the past 24 hours, compared with 10,581 the previous day. It brought Russia’s nationwide tally to 155,370, the country’s coronavirus crisis response center said on Tuesday.

It also reported 95 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total death toll in Russia to 1,451.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019 in China’s Hubei province, and the virus has spread to 212 countries and territories since then.

To date, COVID-19 cases surpassed 3,566,000 globally, resulting in more than 1,200,000 recoveries and over 252,000 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.