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Russia reported 25,033 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 5,410 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,783,333.
The government coronavirus task force said 749 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 143,002.
UK National Statistician Ian Diamond said the data showed an increase in cases, with one in 160 in England testing positive and that the figure was going up “quite quickly” although case number remained “slightly less than a third of where we were on the second of January this year”.
The increase was driven largely by cases in the North East and North West, with the lowest number in the East of England and the South East.
So at the moment there is definitely an increase driven by the northeast and driven very much by people aged 18 to 24, [but ] we’re seeing very very little increase in people aged over 50, for example, and I think that’s encouraging.
I think it would be wrong to completely rule it out, but I would have to say that at the moment we don’t have the data either really to put a firm number on things.
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