Record number of COVID-19 cases detected in Russia for all time

Over the past 24 hours, 201 people have died from the infection, and 7,092 patients have recovered. Moscow remains the leader in the number of new

diseases, ahead of St. Petersburg and the Moscow region.

The situation is similar throughout the world. Over the past 24 hours, 338,779 people on the planet have been infected with coronavirus, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). This is a record figure recorded by the organization. Johns Hopkins University, which also keeps global statistics on COVID-19, reported 349,254 new cases of infection.

In total, more than 36 infected with coronavirus in the worldmillion people, more than 1 million people died. In early October, the WHO admitted that the number of people already infected with COVID-19 in the world could be 10% of the world's population. In total, more than 7.8 billion people live in the world.

Leaders among countries in terms of the number of infectedare the United States (7.4 million), India (6.8 million), Brazil (4.9 million) and Russia (1.2 million). The largest number of deaths was recorded in the USA (209 thousand), Brazil (147 thousand) and India (105 thousand). Russia ranks 13th (22 thousand).

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