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More than 500 people have now died in Russia from coronavirus, where the number of total confirmed cases is nearly 58,000

On the morning of April 22, Russian officials announced that the country recorded 5,236 new coronavirus infections in the past day, bringing the nation’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 57,999 patients. A day earlier, health officials reported 5,642 new cases.

Another 57 people reportedly died from the disease, raising Russia’s total number of fatalities caused by COVID-19 to 513. As many as 4,420 people in Russia are known to have recovered fully from the disease, including 547 in the past day.

Russia says it’s conducted more than 2.2 million coronavirus tests, so far, including 109,000 in the past day.

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