On the morning of May 12, Russian officials announced that the country had recorded 10,899 new coronavirus infections in the past day, bringing the nation’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 232,243 patients. According to the latest data, Russia has now overtaken Spain (which has 227,436 cases), to become the country with the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, after the United States.
Another 107 people reportedly died from the disease, raising Russia’s total official number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 to 2,116. As many as 43,512 people in Russia are known to have recovered fully, including 3,711 in the past day.
Russia says it’s conducted more than 5.8 million coronavirus tests, so far.