MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday reported 820 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, matching an all-time one-day high that it last reached on Aug. 26.
The government coronavirus task force also said it had recorded 21,438 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the national case tally to 7,354,995 since the pandemic began.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Tom Balmforth)
