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Russia reports record COVID-19-related daily deaths

Published : 13 Aug 2021, 23:25

  DF News Desk
A nurse administers the Sputnik-V vaccine against COVID-19 to a woman at a vaccination center in Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia, Aug. 4, 2021. File Photo: Xinhua.

Russia has confirmed a record daily number of 815 deaths caused by COVID-19 infections, raising the nationwide death toll to 168,864, the official monitoring and response center said Friday, reported Xinhua.

Russia's COVID-19 caseload grew by 22,277 to 6,557,068, while the number of recoveries increased by 19,368 to 5,848,340.

Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia's worst-hit region, registered 2,529 new cases, taking the city's total to 1,537,888.