“Over the past 24 hours, 5,218 cases of new coronavirus infection have been identified in Russia in 83 regions, of which 1,195 cases (22.9%) are active in contact persons without clinical manifestations of the disease,” the Telegram channel said.
In addition, 142 deaths were recorded per day (over the entire period, 18 135 people died).
Also, 6409 people were discharged from hospitals for recovery from COVID-19 per day, a total of 856,458.
The day before, it was reported that 5099 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia.
On September 8, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin doubted that there would be a second wave of coronavirus in Russia.
Virologist Anatoly Altstein told NSN about possible options for the development of the situation with COVID-19.