Russia records double daily record of infections and deaths from coronavirus

Russia Russia recorded 986 deaths from coronavirus and 31,299 infections in the last 24 hours, new daily highs since the beginning of the pandemic, the country’s health authorities reported today.

In Moscow, the main focus of the pandemic in Russia, 73 deaths from covid-19 and 6,712 new cases were registered, 33% more infections than in the previous day.

“If we do not adopt measures to restrict the social contacts that lead to the increase in cases and to expand vaccination, we risk that they continue to increase”, said today the Minister of Health of Russia, Mijaíl Murashko.

According to the health chief of Russia, Anna Popova, there is currently an increase in the incidence of coronavirus in 77 of the 85 regions of the country.

The deaths registered in the last day raised the number of fatalities caused in Russia by covid-19 to 220,215, although official statistics on excess deaths during the pandemic tripled this figure.

According to the Ministry of Health, the worsening epidemic situation in the country has increased the occupancy of hospital beds for patients with covid-19 to 90%.

Authorities attribute it to the delta variant and the low vaccination rate in the country.

According to Gogov.ru, a website that offers updated and detailed data by region on the number of vaccines administered in the country, today in Russia 50,055,799 people, 34% of the population, have received at least one component of Russian anticovid bidosis preparations.

Of the total number of people vaccinated, 45,407,284 or 31.1% of the population have received the complete regimen.

In the last week, according to Gogov.ru, an average of 123,264 people were vaccinated daily, so if this rate is maintained to immunize 60% of the adult population of Russia, it would take 155 days from today.

Russia is the fifth country in the world by number of covid-19 cases, behind the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

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