Russia has registered a new single-day record of 21,798 COVID-19 cases, up from 20,498 yesterday, bringing the total to 1,796,132, the federal response centre said on Monday, APA reports citing Sputnik.
The previous record of 20,582 cases was reported on 6 November.
"In the past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 21,798 COVID-19 cases in 84 regions, of which 5,849 (26.8 percent) were detected with people showing no clinical symptoms", the response centre said, adding that the case count has reached 1,796,132.