MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday reported 8,861 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,431 in Moscow, pushing the national case tally to 4,483,471 since the pandemic began.
The government coronavirus taskforce said that 401 people had died in the last 24 hours, pushing its death toll to 96,219.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)