Russia has the world’s second-highest number of coronavirus infections after reporting another 10,899 new cases on Tuesday (May 12).
The new cases brought Russia’s total to 232,243, surpassing the number of infections in Britain and Spain and now behind only the United States which has reported more than 1.3 million, according to the tally compiled from official sources.
Russia has been reporting more than 10,000 new cases per day for over a week.
Officials say the high number of cases reflects a huge testing campaign, with some 5.8 million tests carried out so far.
