Medical workers are busy in an intensive care unit for patients with coronavirus infection in the hospital of the National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery of the Russian Ministry of Health in Moscow, Russia, May 2, 2020. (Sputnik via Xinhua)
Russia confirmed 11,656 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 221,344, the country's coronavirus task force said on Monday.
Nine more fatalities from the disease were also recorded, bringing the death toll to 2,009.
