Russia suffers 20,992 new daily COVID-19 cases, 785 deaths

August 20, 2021 / 5:14 PM

People stand in line to get a dose of Russia's Sputnik Lite Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination point for foreigners at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow

Sharjah 24 – WAM: Russia has registered 20,992 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours.

The total number of infections has reached 6,705,523 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis centre told journalists on Friday.

According to the crisis centre, the relative increase of new infections is at the level of 0.31 percent.

The number of COVID-19 fatalities in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 785 compared to 791 the day before. In all, 174,485 patients died of the infection.