Russia's coronavirus-related death toll hits new record high

Russia has registered 40,443 new confirmed COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours with the total number of infections reaching 8,633,643 cases, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Wednesday.

Report informs, citing TASS, that, according to data from the crisis center, Russia's coronavirus growth rate was 0.47%.

In particular, over the past day, some 3,269 COVID-19 cases were registered in St. Petersburg, 2,744 cases of the infection were recorded in the Moscow Region, 1,596 - in the Samara Region, 807 - in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 800 - in the Voronezh Region.

The number of so-called active cases, the patients who are currently receiving treatment, surged to 946,145, the crisis center noted.