A staff member wearing a face mask and traditional costumes makes pottery with a young visitor during a Moscow City Day cultural event at Kolomenskoye park in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2020. /Xinhua
Russia registered 5,099 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its caseload to 1,035,789, the country's COVID-19 response center said in a statement Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 122 new deaths were reported, taking the death toll to 17,993.
Moscow, the country's worst-hit region, reported 695 new cases, bringing its tally of infections to 267,742, the center said.
According to the statement, 850,049 patients have recovered so far, including 6,772 over the past day.
As of Monday, 205,834 people were still under medical observation, while over 38.9 million tests have been conducted across the country.