Covid Russia today, 672 dead: record bulletin since February

New record of deaths from covid in Russia. The official bulletin today refers to 672 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours: there have never been so many in the country since the beginning of the health emergency. The data of the Russian authorities reported by the Tass agency report 23,543 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, with the total having risen to 5,538,142 infections and 135,886 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Tass points out that today’s data on new cases is the most worrying since last January 17. Moscow, according to the official bulletin, records 7,597 infections and 108 deaths. St. Petersburg, which hosts the quarter-finals of the European football championships, is the city that in the last few hours has reported the highest number of victims, with 115 deaths. In Russia there are 384,935 active cases and – underlines Tass – they had never been so many since last February 17th. The people reported cured after contracting the infection are 5,017,321.