“Over the past day in Russia, 52 cases of coronavirus infection have been registered among citizens of the Russian Federation in 23 regions,” the report said.

So, 12 cases were recorded in Moscow, in the Moscow and Sverdlovsk regions five each, in the Tula region, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk territories - three cases each.

Two more cases were registered in the Tambov, Voronezh, Kirov regions, as well as in the Krasnodar Territory.

On one occasion in the Ivanovo, Ryazan, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Saratov and Tver regions, as well as in the Perm Territory, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Chuvashia.

Earlier, the headquarters reported the identification of 52 new cases of COVID-19 in Russia per day. The total number of cases recorded in the country has reached 199.

On March 17, new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded per day in 15 regions of Russia.