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Daily tally of new COVID-19 cases in Moscow down 5-fold on late 2020, says mayor

According to Sergei Sobyanin, the coronavirus situation in the capital city is improving

MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases per day has dropped five-fold in Moscow on the surge figures of late 2020, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Friday.

"Incidence rates are going down week after week. The number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases is down nearly five-fold on late 2020. As for the number of hospitalizations and other indicators, the coronavirus spread levels are down by two to three times," he wrote on his blog.

According to the mayor, the coronavirus situation in the capital city is improving. "However, we see alarming signals coming from Brazil and a number of European nations. But the situation here is quite stable," he added.

Moscow ranks first among Russian regions in terms of coronavirus incidence rates. It has recorded a total of 987,041 COVID-19 cases, 1,757 of which were confirmed during the past day. As many as 907,770 patients have recovered and 15,297 have died.