TIRANA – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia has exceeded 50,000 on Tuesday, the anti-coronavirus crisis center data shows. Over the past 24 hours, 5,642 more infections were identified. The increase stands at 12% which is higher than that on Monday (slightly less than 10%) but lower than the average increase in the past weeks, said TASS news agency. The overall number of cases reached 52,763. Per every 100,000 people, Russia has almost 36 infections, ranking it 24th among 30 states with the biggest number of cases after Romania.
As of Tuesday morning, 456 people (0.86% of the infected) died in Russia due to coronavirus-related causes. Over the past 24 hours, 51 more fatalities were reported, said TASS, which added that the number of recoveries in Russia is confidently growing, 427 more people were declared healthy over the past 24 hours.
Russia has conducted 2.14 million tests, putting it in the second place after the US (more than 4 million tests conducted, according to the Johns Hopkins University. Almost 2.5% of the coronavirus tests came back positive, the share has been steadily increasing lately.
Authorities and specialists are more increasingly saying that the outbreak peak is approaching which will mean that the infection rate will start to plateau, meaning that the daily confirmed cases will no longer rise and will start to stabilize. Head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Veronika Skvortsova believes that the peak can be reached either late this week or early next week. The epidemiological research center of Russia’s consumer watchdog mentions early May but concede that the infection rate can possibly plateau in April./argumentum.al
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