MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported 8,947 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 2,817 in Moscow, taking the official national tally to 5,108,129 since the pandemic began.
The government coronavirus task force said 377 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 123,037.
The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 250,000 deaths related to COVID-19 from April 2020 to March 2021.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Maria Kiselyova; Editing by Tom Balmforth)
