Russia's Covid-19 deaths return to record daily highs

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Russia has reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time one-day high that it last reached on August 26, Reuters reports.

The government coronavirus task force also said it had recorded 21,438 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the national case tally to 7,354,995 since the pandemic began.

A serviceman of Russia's Emergencies Ministry, wearing protective gear, disinfects Kievsky railway terminal amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Moscow. — AFP
A serviceman of Russia's Emergencies Ministry, wearing protective gear, disinfects Kievsky railway terminal amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Moscow. — AFP

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