MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record daily number of COVID-19 cases on Thursday as the Omicron coronavirus variant spread across the country, authorities said.
New daily cases jumped to 155,768, up from 141,883 a day earlier. The government coronavirus task force also reported 667 deaths in the last 24 hours.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Alex Richardson)
