Russia coronavirus cases surpass 80,000; death toll at 747

ANI | Updated: Apr 26, 2020, 18:05 IST

An almost empty Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral the Spasskaya Tower, right, on April 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. (AP photo)

An almost empty Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral the Spasskaya Tower, right, on April 24, 2020 in Moscow...Read More

MOSCOW (RUSSIA): Russia has registered record 6,361 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 80,949, the national coronavirus response center said on Sunday.
"Over the past 24 hours, 6,361 COVID-19 cases have been registered in 83 regions. Of these, 45.9 percent have been detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms," the center said in a statement.
Of all the new cases, 2,971 have been registered in Moscow, 576 in the Moscow region and 153 in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
The country's COVID-19 death toll has increased by 66 to 747.
As many as 517 patients have recovered over the given period, bringing the total number of cured people to 6,767.