MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record 507 coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours on Wednesday, taking its national death toll to 37,538 since the pandemic began.
Authorities also confirmed 23,675 new cases of the virus, including 4,685 in Moscow, pushing the total number of infections to 2,162,503 since the start of the outbreak.
Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova