MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record 613 deaths related to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours on Friday, taking its official death toll from the pandemic to 45,893.
Authorities confirmed 28,585 new coronavirus infections nationally, including 7,215 in Moscow, pushing the national case total to 2,597,711.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)
