Covid today Russia, new record of deaths: 815 in 24 hours

815 people have lost their lives in Russia in the last 24 hours due to complications attributable to Covid-19. This is the highest number of deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic, as reported by the task force in charge of monitoring the spread of the virus. Thus the deaths in Russia rise to 168,864 and the infected people to 6,557,068, 22,277 more than yesterday. Moscow was the city that in the last 24 hours recorded the highest number of cases and deaths, respectively 2,529 and 59. St Petersburg follows with 1,810 infections and 42 deaths, as explained by the Sputnik news agency.