Russia has reported 22,160 new Covid-19 cases, including 2,150 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 6,469,910, reports Reuters.

The government coronavirus task force has said that 769 people have died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 165,650.

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded about 315,000 deaths related to Covid-19 from April 2020 to June 2021.