Russia’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases reaches 63

Some 18 new coronavirus patients were identified in Russia over the weekend with the total number of infected reaching 63. Moscow leads with the number of new cases, with 9 infected with Covid-19 detected in the capital. So far, the coronavirus has not claimed any lives in Russia.

Over 145,000 coronavirus patients have been registered worldwide, and more than 5,400 of them died. While the majority of cases have originated in the pandemic’s ground zero — Wuhan, China — and countries such as Iran and South Korea have been heavily hit, the World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that the hotspot of the disease has shifted to Europe, where the daily numbers of infected have surpassed those in China. Some 250 new deaths were recorded in one day in Italy alone.