Russia’s coronavirus active cases slightly decreased on May 20 for the fist time during virus spread

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA - JANUARY 30, 2020: Flight attendants wear medical masks at Novosibirsk International Airport imposing strict health control measures, officials remotely taking temperature of passengers arriving from China in connection with the outbreak of a pneumonia-like coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Latest reports put the total number of 2019-nCoV cases over 7,000 with 170 of them fatal. Kirill Kukhmar/TASS. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

MOSCOW, May 20, 2020, Pan Pacific Agency. Coronavirus infections in Russia cross 308,000 cases, officials said. 135 new deaths in a past day, according to the Russian coronavirus crisis response centre message. So, deaths toll climbs to 2972, govt claims.

For the first time since the pandemic starts, the number of active cases, that is, patients who are sick, has decreased in a past day in Russia. As of May 19, official statistics shows there were 220.9 thousand active cases. As of May 20, there are 220.3 thousand cases.

More detailed day-by-day statictics and interactive visualizing you can find at the agency’s virus tracker covid19.panpacificagency.com.

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