Cases in Russia fall for the third day

Russia recorded 4,774 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, a fall in the number of daily new cases for the third day running, bringing its nationwide tally to 62,773, the Russian coronavirus crisis response centre said on Thursday.

Forty-two people with the virus died in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 555, it said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the current nationwide lockdown with stay-at-home orders until the end of April in a bid to quell the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

via Reuters

 

Discover more from The Dispatch

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading

Verified by MonsterInsights