The number has declined to 0.94
MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Russia s coronavirus spread rate declined further in the past 24 hours, falling to a new low of 0.94 since May 8, according to TASS estimates based on the anti-coronavirus crisis center s latest data released on Thursday.
The coronavirus spread rate is below 1 in eight out of ten Russian regions with the largest number of COVID-19 cases. It exceeds 1 only in St. Petersburg (1.03) and in the Voronezh Region (1.02), the estimates show.
The coronavirus spread rate equals 0.99 in the Irkutsk, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod Regions and has slightly decreased to 0.97 and 0.96 in the Krasnoyarsk and Rostov Regions, respectively. This rate has fallen to 0.9 in the Sverdlovsk Region and to a new low of 0.85 since May 21 in Moscow, the latest data indicate.
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(Photo : Getty Images/Ian Forsyth) HAMBLETON, NORTH YORKSHIRE - NOVEMBER 29: A warning sign hangs from a fence at a farm near Northallerton after an outbreak of Avian flu was confirmed at a commercial turkey fattening farm on November 29, 2020 in Hambleton, North Yorkshire. The United Kingdom s Department for Rural Affairs said that 10,500 turkeys would have to be culled after the H5N8 strain of avian influenza was confirmed at a turkey fattening premises here.
Numerous nations have reported cases of poultry and wild birds ailing from influenza A H5N8, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (AIV). The subtype of flu was not regularly associated with human infections. However, this changed last February when seven poultry farm workers in southern Russia became the first recorded human cases of H5N8 bird flu.
Russia registers 8,406 new cases of Covid-19, 319 deaths in past 24 hours - HQ
MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Russia has registered 8,406 new cases of Covid-19 and 319 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Monday. Over the past day, 8,406 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in 82 regions of Russia, including 1,018 asymptomatic cases identified proactively (12.1%), the headquarters said.
In the past 24 hours, 6,450 patients were discharged from hospitals upon recovery, and 319 patients died from Covid-19 across Russia.
According to the headquarters, Moscow reported 2,487 new cases of Covid-19, along with 59 deaths and 1,730 recoveries on Monday.
The daily coronavirus morbidity has been the highest in Moscow and the lowest in Tuva (four). There were zero infections in the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Chukotka and Nenets autonomous districts in the past 24 hours.