Russia reports 23,807 new COVID-19 cases, 792 deaths

Russia has reported 23,807 new COVID-19 cases, including 3,514 in Moscow, taking the national tally of infections to 6,265,873 on Saturday.

Russia’s coronavirus task force said that 792 more deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, raising the country’s COVID-19 death toll to 158,563.

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 290,000 deaths related to COVID-19 from April 2020 to May 2021.

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