Russian energy minister contracts COVID-19

20:29, August 18, 2020

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  Russian COVID-19 cases top 930,000

  File photoMOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia registered 4,748 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 932,493, the countrys COVID-19 response center said in a statement Tuesday.Meanwhile, 132 new deaths were reported, taking the nationwide count to 15,872.Moscow, the countrys worst-hit region, reported 693 new cases, taking its tally of infections to 253,757, the response center said.According to the statement, 742,628 people have recovered so far, including 6,527 over the past day.As of Monday, 225,759 people were still under medical observation, while over 32.9 million tests have been conducted across the country, Russias consumer rights and human well-being watchdog said Tuesday in a separate statement.

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  Russian COVID-19 cases surpass 940,000

  Photo provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) shows a researcher working in a laboratory of the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 6, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)Russia registered 4,785 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 942,106, the countrys COVID-19 response center said in a statement Thursday.Meanwhile, 110 new deaths were reported, taking the nationwide count to 16,099.Moscow, the countrys worst-hit region, reported 688 new cases, taking its tally of infections to 255,136, the response center said.According to the statement, 755,513 people have recovered so far, including 6,090 over the past day.As of Wednesday, 224,167 people were still under medical observation, while over 33.5 million tests have been conducted across the country, Russias consumer rights and human well-being watchdog said Thursday in a separate statement.

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  Third Israeli minister tests positive for COVID-19

  JERUSALEM, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Minister of Immigration and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement issued by the Israeli parliament spokesperson on Sunday.File photo: AFP"According to a preliminary investigation, the minister was last at the parliament on Wednesday. The parliament will continue the epidemiological investigation, in coordination with the Health Ministry," the statement said.At the end of the investigation, the health ministry is supposed to decide which government and parliament members will have to enter home quarantine.Tamano-Shata is the third Israeli minister who has tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country in late February.Also on Sunday, it was announced that Walid Taha, a parliament member of the Arab-Israeli party Joint List, had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.