Russia on Thursday recorded 808 deaths due to complications caused by COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, the highest daily number of deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. Russia's COVID-19 task force allows announced 21,932 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the total number of coronavirus infections and virus-related fatalities in the country to 6,534,791 and168,049 respectively. According to the taskforce, some 1,801 COVID-19 cases were recorded in St. Petersburg, 1,143 in the Moscow region, 549 in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 523 in the Sverdlovsk region and 485 in the Rostov region. Currently, 537,770 people are undergoing treatment in Russia. Patients' recoveries Russia's coronavirus recoveries grew by 20,195 in the past 24 hours reaching 5,828,972. According to the crisis center, recoveries stand at 89.2% of the total number of infections. St. Petersburg confirmed 2,289 daily recoveries, the Moscow region — 1,808, the Perm region — 503, the Krasnoyarsk region — 500, while the Sverdlovsk and the Nizhny Novgorod regions reported 461 recoveries each. Moscow daily cases The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Moscow has increased by 2,294 over the past 24 hours compared to 2,076 a day earlier. In all, since the beginning of the pandemic, 1,535,359 infections have been detected in the city. Over the past 24 hours, the city recorded 56 fatalities, the lowest since June 5. In all, according to the crisis center, there have been 26,423 deaths (1.72 percent of those infected). Having recovered, 3,329 patients have been discharged over the past 24 hours with a total of 1,401,836 recoveries. Currently, 107,100 patients continue treatment in the capital. — Agencies
