As of April 1, 8:00 AM MSK, the total number of people infected has been 857,442 worldwide (daily increase: 72,780 cases, 9.3%). 774,825 cases have been registered in 174 countries of the world without China (daily increase: 72,708 cases, 10.4%), Russia’s Rospotrebnadzor informs.

According to the daily report of the National Health Commission of China as of April 1, 8:00 AM, 82,617 cases of the infection have been registered in China. Daily increase: 72 cases, 0.09%.

As previously reported, on 31 March, the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected in the Donetsk People’s Republic.