According to RIA Novosti, the regional health department said that the number of patients with coronavirus in the state has reached 502,739, and the number of victims of COVID-19 has increased to 7,627.
According to the agency, previously 500 thousand cases of the virus were recorded in the US state of California.
At the moment, Texas is also approaching the half-million mark. According to the latest data, 459,887 cases of infection have already been identified there.
Earlier, American leader Donald Trump announced the retreat of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
In July, the FAN reported that the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine of the I.M. Sechenov, chief freelance epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health Nikolai Briko called the difficult situation with COVID-19 in the world.