On the morning of April 20, Russian officials announced that the country recorded 4,268 new coronavirus infections in the past day, bringing the nation’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 47,121 patients. A day earlier, health officials reported 6,060 new cases.
The latest infections were reported in 76 different regions, including Moscow (+2,026), the Moscow region (+578), the Nizhny Novgorod region (+113), St. Petersburg (+86), Murmansk (+46), and Chechnya and Bashkiria (+45 each).
Another 44 people reportedly died from the disease, raising Russia’s total number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 to 405. As many as 3,446 people in Russia are known to have recovered fully from the disease, including 405 in the past day.
Russia says it’s conducted more than 2 million coronavirus tests, so far.