Russia has reported 8,780 new coronavirus cases, including 2,526 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 4,762,569 since the start of the pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis centre said 332 more deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 108,232, according to Reuters.

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and reported a toll of more than 225,000 from April 2020 to February.