While some regions are now starting to see confirmed cases and deaths fall following the introduction of strict lockdown restrictions, others are only now seeing them rise.
Russia has recorded its biggest one-day increase in new cases since the start of the outbreak with more than 10,000 people testing positive.
The biggest jump is in Moscow – where temporary hospital facilities are being opened all the time – though the official death rate in Russia remains relatively low at 1,280.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin – who announced on Thursday that he had caught the virus – is still being treated in hospital, although is working from there.
The Russian authorities put the rise down to a big increase in testing – more than 40,000 people a day in Moscow alone. They also say up to half of the new cases are people without symptoms, including those detected through screening, like healthcare workers.
Russia now has 134,687 coronavirus cases, according to latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.
It is among the countries where the mortality rate is rising fastest, roughly doubling the number of deaths in the last 10 days.
