Staff members wearing face masks and traditional costumes play board games with young visitors during a Moscow City Day cultural event at Kolomenskoye park in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)
Moscow, the country's worst-hit region, reported 670 new cases.
MOSCOW, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia registered 5,488 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 1,057,362, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Saturday.
Meanwhile, 119 new deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 18,484.
Moscow, the country's worst-hit region, reported 670 new cases, bringing its tally of infections to 270,447, the center said.
According to the statement, 873,535 patients have recovered so far, including 5,428 over the past day.
As of Saturday, over 40.2 million tests have been conducted across the country. ■
