The country’s death toll from the virus has reached 8,002, an increase of 181 deaths in the last 24 hours.

324,406 patients suffering from coronavirus have been discharged from hospital after being cured.

Russia was relatively late in suffering a serious outbreak, but now has become the country with the third-most cases in the world, after the United States and Brazil, having surpassed the United Kingdom and Spain.

The city of Moscow is currently the most affected federal subject, having the majority of confirmed cases.

Alla Samoilova, the chief of Roszdravnadzor, the federal service of the Russian Federation that exercises control and supervision functions in the field of health care, said that 489 healthcare employees had died from coronavirus in the country.

On June 15, Human Rights Watch documented that healthcare workers in Russia were facing threats and reprisal from employers and law enforcement. The medical workers were being targeted for speaking about lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) to safely treat suspected patients and prevent the spread of Covid-19

Global death toll from coronavirus have reached 463,157, with 8,787,035 cases and 4,647,152 recoveries.

ILKHA