Russia logs 24,818 new COVID-19 infections, 734 fatalities
July 08, 2021 / 5:00 PM
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A medical worker wearing PPE tends to a patient infected with the Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Mariinsky Hospital in Saint Petersburg
Sharjah 24 – SPA: Russia on Thursday reported 24,818 new COVID-19 cases, including 6,040 in Moscow, amid a wave of infections blamed on the infectious Delta variant, Reuters reported.
The coronavirus task force also reported 734 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, close to a record high, taking the death toll to 140,775.
Russia has confirmed 5,707,452 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.