Of the positive persons detected, 1,876 were asymptomatic (8.4 percent) and most were located in the capital (2,235), in St. Petersburg (1,904) and in the Moscow region (1,455). At present, 520,952 people are being treated in the country for the disease, informed this Saturday the operational staff for the fight against Covid-19.

The day before, 793 Russians died as a result of the pandemic, which brings to 164,094 the number casualties since the beginning of Covid-19 in the Eurasian nation, for a mortality rate of 2.55 percent.

During the last day, 19,485 patients were medically discharged, a figure which amounts to 5,739,838, 89.3 percent of all the infections detected.

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