Russia on Friday reported a record daily rise in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, a day after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced he had been diagnosed with the new virus and was temporarily stepping down to recover.
FILE PHOTO: Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment work in the Intensive Care Unit , ECMO Centre of the City Clinical Hospital Number 52, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease are treated, in Moscow, Russia April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
It said 96 people diagnosed with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, had died in the last 24 hours. That raised the official overall death toll up to 1,169. Mishustin, who had been one of the main coordinators of Russia’s response to the new coronavirus, was the first high-ranking Russian official to publicly say they have the virus.
Although Russia is rising up the table of nations with the highest number of confirmed cases, it has so far recorded far fewer deaths than many of the hardest-hit countries.
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