A man shows his digital ID to a police officer in downtown Moscow amid the spread of the coronavirus. MOSCOW: Russia's COVID-19 cases overtook French and German infections on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise, and Moscow's mayor said the real figure, not captured by official statistics, was much higher.
Moscow's health department said that late-stage testing for the coronavirus often produced false negative results and that more and more Muscovites displayed no symptoms or suffered only mild cases.Sobyanin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said the number of cases was rising steeply because authorities had doubled the amount of tests they were carrying out in Moscow. Nationwide, Russia says it has conducted over 4.8 million tests.
Russia's official death toll, which remains far lower than in many countries - something that has been called into question by some Kremlin critics - rose to 1,625 on Thursday after 88 people died overnight, official figures showed. Sobyanin said later on Wednesday that self-isolation restrictions in the capital would be extended until May 31, warning it was too early to reopen sports facilities, restaurants and theatres.
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