Russia records 11,198 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours

Russia has reported 11,198 new COVID-19 cases over the past day, Report informs, citing Russian media.

Overall, the country has seen 4,212,100 coronavirus cases since the pandemic onset.

A total of 3,767,664 Russians have coped with the disease during the epidemic.

Meanwhile, 446 people have succumbed to the pathogen in one day, taking the country's overall COVID-19 death toll to 84,876.

Russia has reported 11,198 new COVID-19 cases over the past day,

On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, and the causative agent is a new type of coronavirus officially named COVID-19.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.