MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 6,422 in the past day, reaching 746,369, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday.

According to the crisis center, in the past nine days the daily growth rate did not exceed 0.9%.

Some 628 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 264 in St. Petersburg, 263 in the Sverdlovsk Region, 251 in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region and 246 in the Altai Region.

The lowest growth rate in the past day was recorded in Moscow (0,3%), the Moscow Region (0,3%), North Ossetia (0,4%), Sevastopol (0,4%), Ingushetia (0,5%), Dagestan (0,5%) and the Kaliningrad Region (0,5%).

To date, some 211,350 people are undergoing treatment for the coronavirus in Russia.