Russia has reported a record 1,239 deaths from Covid-19 in the previous 24 hours, just days after most of its regions emerged from a week-long workplace shutdown designed to curb the spread of the virus, reports Reuters.

The government's coronavirus task force has also reported 38,058 new Covid-19 cases, including 3,927 in Moscow, in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told parliament that oxygen reserves at hospitals in 12 of Russia's regions would last for two days or less, unless they were replenished.

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