Russia cases surge to world's second highest As it begins to ease its nationwide lockdown, Russia becomes the country with the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections after reporting another 10,899 new cases, according to an AFP tally.
The new cases bring Russia's total to 232,243, surpassing the number of infections in Britain and Spain and now behind only the United States.
In Saint Petersburg, five people die after a fire at a hospital for coronavirus patients, including some attached to ventilators.
The city's governor says it appears one of the ventilators at the hospital short-circuited and caught fire. More than 286,000 dead around the world At least 286,122 coronavirus deaths have been recorded since the pandemic