Over the past day, 4,729 new cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19 have been detected in 84 regions of Russia (4,993 a day earlier).

According to the headquarters, 25.6% of new patients had no clinical manifestations of coronavirus infection.

No new cases have been identified in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The subjects with the lowest growth rates were the Pskov and Smolensk regions (both 0.1% each), Moscow, the Moscow region, the republics of Tyva and Chechnya (all 0.2%)

In total, in Russia, the diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed in 1,000,048 people.

Since the beginning of the epidemic in Russia, 815,705 patients (81.57%) have recovered, including 6,318 in the last 24 hours.

From complications that developed against the background of coronavirus infection and concomitant diseases, 17,299 patients (1.73%) died.

123 people died per day.

The regions where the largest number of new cases were detected per day included Moscow (641), St. Petersburg (185), Moscow (156), Rostov (133) and Nizhny Novgorod regions (132).

Moscow remains the leader in the country in terms of the number of detected cases (263,059).

As noted in the Department of Health of the capital, the growth rate of new cases per day is 14% less than a month ago.

“In accordance with the Rospotrebnadzor criteria, an indicator of less than one indicates a stable epidemiological situation in the city.

Despite the increase in the coverage of coronavirus testing, the number of new cases in Moscow remains low, ”the Moscow Department of Health said in a statement.

    According to Rospotrebnadzor, more than 36.9 million coronavirus tests have been carried out in Russia.

    During the day, the number of studies performed increased by 204 thousand. 211 thousand people remain under medical supervision in the country.

    According to the American Johns Hopkins Institute, more than 25.5 million cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the world.

    The largest number of cases is in the United States (more than 6 million), Brazil (3.9 million) and India (almost 3.7 million).

    At the same time, more than 850 thousand people around the world died from complications associated with coronavirus infection and other diseases, including 183.5 thousand in the United States.

    At the same time, the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recalled that the threat of COVID-19 has not disappeared.

    “The more countries control the virus, the more they can open up.

    Opening up without control is a sure way to disaster.

    No country can just pretend that the pandemic is over, ”The Hill quoted him as saying.

    The spread of coronavirus infection can be stopped within the next 12 months, but only thanks to vaccines.

    This opinion was expressed by the head of the laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences Konstantin Severinov.

    “Out of 7.8 billion of the world's population, less than 26 million have fallen ill, many of whom have already recovered.

    Apparently, the vaccine will be the one that stops the infection, and there will be no direct cure for it.

    This will happen, most likely, within a year, "the Parliamentary Gazette quotes him.

    On August 11, Russia was the first in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19, called "Sputnik V".

    “I want to congratulate Academician Gunzburg and all colleagues who worked on this topic and achieved this result.

    I know that work on vaccines of this kind in Russia continues, continues in other institutions.

    I wish all specialists success.

    We should be grateful to those who took this first step, very important: very important for our country, in general for the whole world.

    I hope that we will be able to start mass production in the near future - this is what is important - mass production of this drug, so that everyone who wants - this, of course, should be done exclusively voluntarily, I have already said on this score many times - could to take advantage of the developments and achievements of our specialists, our scientists, ”said Vladimir Putin at a meeting with government members on August 11.

    As Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko later pointed out, in Russia vaccination against coronavirus infection will reach maximum volumes after November-December 2020.