The operational headquarters for the control and monitoring of the spread of infection recorded that the number of new cases of coronavirus infection in Russia fell to another minimum since December 9, 2020. So, over the past day, 26 301 cases were identified in the country. reported on the stopcoronavirus.ru website.
According to experts, this figure is less than that which was established on January 1, 2020. Then in Russia 27,039 cases of infection were recorded.
As for the spread of infection by region, most cases were detected in Moscow (5 452), St. Petersburg (3742) and the Moscow region (1564). After them in the ranking are the Nizhny Novgorod (499), Sverdlovsk (409), Rostov (394), Voronezh regions (391) and Karelia (361).
Earlier, a minimum of new cases of coronavirus infection identified June 26, 2020, comparing indicator with data from the end of April 2020. In the summer, their number was 6.8 thousand. Then the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova called the indicator “pleasant numbers.”