Crimea has seen 604 newly confirmed coronavirus cases over the last day, new record daily COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Russian occupation authorities reported this on Tuesday in the uncontrolled territory of Ukraine.
This is the highest number of coronavirus cases in Crimea since the onset of the pandemic, the peninsula has been experiencing such abysmal figures for over two weeks in a row.
"On October 18, 2021, 604 new coronavirus cases were registered in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, reaching 88,847 positive results for the virus," the Russian sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor's so-called Interregional Directorate wrote in a statement.
It said that 1,547 people had been tested for the coronavirus infection over the past 24 hours, with 543 patients having recovered.
Since the pandemic set in, more than 2,800 have died in Crimea.
