There Are 661 165 Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Russia

OREANDA-NEWS. On July 2, there are 661 165 (6 760 per day) cases of coronavirus infection reported in Russia. 9 683 (147 per day) died of the disease. In Moscow, 39 people died of the coronavirus in a day. Over 428 000 people have recovered since the beginning of the epidemic.

Russia is the third most affected country in the world by the number of people infected.

Rospotrebnadzor has organized a pilot study of the population immunity of Russians to COVID-19. The immunity of citizens was tested in St. Petersburg, Tyumen Region, Khabarovsk Territory, regardless of whether people had symptoms of coronavirus infection. In total, more than 8 thousand people were tested.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world has exceeded 10.35 million, more than 508 thousand died. According to current data from Johns Hopkins University, the number of those infected in the world has exceeded 10.6 million, of which 515.6 thousand died.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has resulted in an ongoing pandemic.