THE INTENSIFIED REPORT

Russia on Wednesday reported 10,028 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its nationwide tally to 242,271. The announcement now shows that Russia, in the past 11 days has reported over 10,000 new cases. Russia's coronavirus response center said 96 people died overnight, bringing the official death toll to 2,212.

Russia on Tuesday (May 12) reported 10,899 new cases of the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total past that of Britain to 232,243. Russia's total caseload is now the third highest worldwide. The country's coronavirus response centre said the death toll from the virus rose by 107 people to 2,116.

Russia has registered 10,817 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours (10,699 yesterday), bringing the total to 198,676, the national coronavirus response centre said on Saturday. "Over the past 24 hours, 10,817 COVID-19 cases have been registered in 84 regions. Of these, 4,399 (or 40.7 percent) have been detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms", the centre said in a statement. This brings the total tally to 198,676 (+5.8 percent) in 85 regions across Russia. Of all the new cases, 5,667 have been registered in Moscow, 1,075 in Moscow region and 425 in St. Petersburg (compared to yesterday's 5,846, 918 and 375, respectively). The country's COVID-19 death toll has increased by 104 (98 yesterday) to 1,827. Record 5,308 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the past 24 hours (2,805 yesterday), bringing the total number of cured people to 31,916.