The number of people infected with coronavirus in Russia has reached 177160.

The Moscow operational headquarters for the situation with the coronavirus published statistics for May 7, 2020. The situation with the coronavirus continues to evolve in the most unfavorable way - during the day 11231 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in Russia, while 88 deaths were recorded.

After reaching the figure of 177160 patients with coronavirus, Russia took the 5th place in the world in the prevalence of this infection, overtaking two countries at once - Germany and France.

“Over the past day in Russia 11 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in 231 regions. Of these, 84% did not have clinical manifestations of the disease. 48,7 deaths were recorded. 88 people recovered completely in 2476 hours in Russia. In total, today in Russia 177 160 cases of coronavirus have been detected in 85 regions. Over the entire period 1625 deaths were recorded, 23 803 people recovered ”- reports the operational headquarters.

Nevertheless, experts pay attention to the fact that the real peak of incidence can begin only after a week, and although the data on the growth rate are very vague - according to some, up to 15 thousand new cases per day will be recorded in the peak, in general In general, the situation is extremely negative, since by the beginning of next week, Russia will overtake Italy in incidence.

“The situation indicates that Russia's emergence into second place in terms of the number of infected is inevitable. The main question is whether it will be possible to contain the low mortality rate? ", - the expert marks.