On the morning of April 29, Russian officials announced that the country recorded 5,841 new coronavirus infections in the past day, bringing the nation’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 99,399 patients. A day earlier, the nation recorded 6,411 new infections (570 more cases).
Another 108 people reportedly died from the disease, raising Russia’s total number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 to 972.
Russia says it’s conducted more than 3.3 million coronavirus tests, so far, including 164,400 in the past day.