{"id":1542,"date":"2021-10-12T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2021-10-12T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T10:46:48","slug":"russia-marks-new-all-time-daily-coronavirus-death-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/russia-marks-new-all-time-daily-coronavirus-death-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia marks new all-time daily coronavirus death toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>Active coronavirus cases in Russia exceed 700,000<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Oct 12 (AA): Russia on Tuesday hit another all-time high daily COVID-19 death toll, with the virus claiming 973 lives over the past day, pushing the overall count to 218,345, the country&#8217;s authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 28,190 new infections registered since Monday, the country&#8217;s active cases hit 720,334, the emergency task force pointed out in a daily report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, over 7.83 million people have been exposed to the virus, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recoveries increased by 20,706 over the last 24 hours to reach 6.89 million, the report read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts connect the growing number of coronavirus deaths with the low level of vaccination &#8212; only 42.2 million people, or 29.11% got immunized against the virus in Russia, which is less than half of the value required to achieve a collective immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another factor, affecting the mortality rate, is the beginning of the cold season, which brings flu-like illnesses fraught with complications and increasing the probability of the fatal outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, in cold months the number of patients is rising, commensurately escalating the mortality rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since December 2019, the pandemic has claimed nearly 4.85 million lives in 192 countries and regions, with more than 238.3 million cases reported worldwide, according to the US&#8217; John Hopkins University.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active coronavirus cases in Russia exceed 700,000 MOSCOW, Oct 12 (AA): Russia on Tuesday hit another all-time high daily COVID-19 death toll, with the virus claiming 973 lives over the past day, pushing the overall count to 218,345, the country&#8217;s authorities said. With 28,190 new infections registered since Monday, the country&#8217;s active cases hit 720,334, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6],"tags":[401,294,199],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}