Over the past day in 83 regions of Russia revealed 6,406 new cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19. According to the headquarters, 26% of new patients did not have clinical manifestations of coronavirus infection.

The subjects of the Russian Federation with the lowest growth rates per day were: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Sevastopol (0% each), Moscow (0.2%), Moscow Region (0.3%), Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Republic of North Ossetia, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Bryansk region (0.4% each), Kaluga region, Novgorod region, Republic of Dagestan, Kaliningrad region (0.5% each).

A day earlier, 6428 cases of coronavirus were recorded.

In total, in Russia, the diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed in 759,203 people. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 539,373 people (71%) have recovered in Russia, including 7,681 over the past 24 hours.

12 123 patients (1.6%) died from complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases. During the day, 186 people died.

The regions where the greatest number of new cases were detected per day included: Moscow (575), Sverdlovsk region (301), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (249), St. Petersburg (244), Altai Territory (228), Yamalo-Nenetsky AO (216) and Nizhny Novgorod region (206).

According to Rospotrebnadzor, in Russia more than 24.3 million tests for coronavirus were carried out (according to this indicator, the Russian Federation is in second place in the world). During the day, the number of studies performed increased by 311 thousand. 271.7 thousand people remain under medical supervision in the country.

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Moscow still remains the leader in the country in terms of the number of cases (232,376), but this figure is gradually decreasing. Over the last day in the city, 575 new cases of COVID-19 were detected. A day earlier, the lowest number of patients with COVID-19 (531) since the beginning of April was recorded in the capital.

“The number of new cases is 10% less than a week ago. For more than two months, the average daily growth rate (quantity. - RT ) of new cases has been negative. 53% of new cases are people aged 18 to 45 years old, 24.2% - from 46 to 65 years old, 8.5% - from 66 to 79 years old, another 3.3% - over 80 years old. Also, 11% of cases are children, ”the capital’s health department said.

At the same time, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that in the city, as in New York, 60% of the inhabitants had collective immunity.

“We managed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe, panic. We maintained order and stability of the authorities, made it possible for two-thirds of employees to continue working, ”the mayor said.

He also emphasized that the healthcare system of the American city could not cope with the load, while in the Russian capital the peak of incidence was smoothed out, "the process was extended for three months."

“We, before they introduced quarantine measures, prepared health care better. Due to the smoothed peak, the peak public health burden was also reduced significantly. Therefore, our mortality rate is five times lower, while Moscow is 3 million more than New York, ”Sobyanin added.

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Many countries have become interested in the experience of Russia in the fight against coronavirus infection, said Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko.

“The methodological role of the Ministry of Health is to maximize the format of medical care that meets the highest standards and rules ... Today, we have not only multidisciplinary, but also multi-regional teams. They allow us in a very short period of time to tune the system, in fact to build a help system as efficiently as possible. This practice as a whole, combined with the standardization of medical care, allows the Russian Federation to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. Therefore, many countries are interested in our experience today, ”he said.

According to him, the Russian authorities are in almost constant contact "with the ministries of health of two or three countries in the exchange of experience" to combat COVID-19. The head of the Ministry of Health also said when to expect the registration of the first domestic vaccine against coronavirus infection.

“I think that the first registration will be in August, the first - the beginning of the second decade tentatively,” Murashko explained.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, said that the final, third phase of testing the Russian coronavirus vaccine, developed at the Research Center named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamalei, may end faster than in other countries. In this case, the second phase will be completed by August 3.

“It (the vaccine) will be tested on thousands of people in Moscow, and we will also begin the third phase in other countries,” said Dmitriev on the air of the Russia 1 television channel.

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However, on the eve of the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that the situation with coronavirus in Russia is improving, and the country has passed the peak of incidence, but do not relax.

“We see that the situation with coronavirus is becoming less acute. But we must continue to control the situation. And once again I ask you to make every effort to do this, ”he said during a meeting of the government’s coordinating council to combat the spread of coronavirus.

Agasi Tavadyan, an expert on statistics and modeling at the Center for Economic Research, also noted that an epidemic peak has passed in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

“We can’t talk about the rapid extinction of the epidemic. In different regions, things are different, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He also expressed the opinion that in Russia there may not be a second wave of the spread of coronavirus infection.