This content was published on November 21, 2021 – 09:30
Moscow, Nov 21 (EFE) .- The number of new covid-19 infections in Russia dropped today from 37,000 for the first time in four days, but the number of deaths from the contagious disease remains close to the record with 1,252 deaths in the last day, according to data from the operational center to fight the coronavirus.
In the last 24 hours throughout the country there have been 36,970 new infections.
The last time that Russia reported figures below the barrier of 37,000 cases was on November 17.
Most of the new infections were registered in Moscow (3,438), in Saint Petersburg (2,496) and in the Moscow region (1,909).
In this way, since the beginning of the pandemic, Russia accumulates 9,331,158 cases of coronavirus in its 85 regions.
Russia is the fifth country in the world after the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom in the number of documented infections.
In addition, 1,252 deaths from covid-19 were registered in the last day, two less than the day before when the country repeated the daily record of deaths from the infectious disease.
Since the start of the pandemic in Russia, 264,095 people have died from coronavirus, although official statistics on excess deaths in the same period almost double this figure.
In Moscow, 97 patients died, in Saint Petersburg 74 and in the Krasnodar region 69.
The Russian authorities attribute the sharp increase in new infections and deaths to the aggressiveness of the delta variant, the lack of strict compliance with sanitary rules by many Russians and, above all, to the low vaccination rate in the country.
According to official data from last Friday, in the nation that was a pioneer in registering its own anticovid vaccine, only 58,713,240 citizens have received the complete vaccination schedule, which places herd immunity at only 50.2% 80% to which the authorities aspire. EFE
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