Covid Russia, 791 deaths in 24 hours: never so many since the beginning of the pandemic

791 people have contracted Covid 19 and died in Russia in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day since the outbreak of the pandemic, local health authorities report. With regard to infections, the task force appointed by Moscow to monitor the progress of the infections reported 25,293 new cases on the last day. The number of total cases of coronavirus in Russia is therefore updated to 5,882,295 and to 146,069 that of deaths. According to the World Health Organization, Russia has overtaken France as the fourth country in the world by number of confirmed cases of Covid-19.