MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record 589 deaths linked to the coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the official number of deaths to 41,053.
Authorities also reported 25,345 coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, including 5,191 in the capital Moscow, and 3,684 in St Petersburg, bringing the national cumulative tally to 2,347,401.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Louise Heavens)
