For the seventh consecutive day, Russia recorded more than 10 thousand additional infections with the emerging coronavirus yesterday, bringing the total to nearly 200,000 cases.
The anti-Corona staff in Russia said 104 people died Friday night due to illness, bringing the total to 1,827.
The authorities said that the number of injuries in the world's largest country reached 198,676 confirmed cases, including 10,817 cases recorded within 24 hours.
Russia is the fifth most affected country in terms of casualties, after the United States, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom.
And with 1827 deaths recorded, including 104 in the last 24 hours, the number of deaths remains low compared to all of these countries and others in Europe such as France or even Germany.
The Russian authorities do not attribute the increase in the number of infections last week to the acceleration of the disease outbreak, but rather to the increase in the number of virus detection tests that reached 5.2 million tests according to the numbers on Saturday, and this also explains the low death rate, and the goal of expanding the detection tests is to track cases that do not appear Symptoms and mild those from "Covid-19" which are not necessarily counted in other countries.
But some in Russia question this interpretation and the veracity of the death numbers. As of May 31, isolation measures had been extended in Moscow, where the epidemic was concentrated, with 104,189 injuries and 1,010 deaths.
Yesterday, Russia celebrated the 75th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet forces against Nazi Germany in World War II, but the outbreak of the Corona Virus forced it to reduce the celebrations, which are considered to strengthen the Kremlin.
As the number of Corona cases increased, President Vladimir Putin postponed the height of the Victory Day celebrations - a huge show in the Red Square showing the most advanced Russian military equipment - indefinitely.