Russia confirmed 14,185 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 5,236,593, APP quoted the official monitoring and response centre as saying on Tuesday.

The national Covid-19 death toll rose by 379 to 127,180 in the past day, while the number of the country's recoveries grew by 8,597 to 4,818,244.

Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia's worst-hit region, reported 6,805 new cases, taking the city's total to 1,248,112.

According to official data, over 32.8 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines had been administered in Russia as of Sunday.

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