Russia reports record daily Covid-19 death toll of 786
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Russia faces a surge in cases that the authorities have blamed on the more infectious Delta variant and the slow rate of vaccination.
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MOSCOW (REUTERS) - Russia reported 786 coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday (July 14), the most confirmed in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic, and 23,827 new cases nationwide.
Russia faces a surge in cases that the authorities have blamed on the more infectious Delta variant and the slow rate of vaccination.
The government's coronavirus task force said the official national Covid-19 case tally now stood at 5,857,002. It said the national death toll had risen to 145,278.
The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and said Russia recorded around 290,000 deaths related to Covid-19 from April 2020 to May 2021.
