Russia announced on Saturday that it had recorded a new record of daily deaths from the coronavirus, the fifth since the beginning of the month, the country being hit hard by the Delta variant.
Over the past 24 hours, 752 people have died from Covid-19, exceeding the previous record of 737 set on Tuesday.
The country also recorded 25,082 new contaminations.
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 5.7 million cases have been recorded in Russia and 142,253 people have died according to government figures.
The statistics agency Rosstat, which has a broader definition of deaths linked to Covid-19, had however recorded 270,000 deaths at the end of April.
A population skeptical about vaccines
The fight against the pandemic in Russia is made complicated by a sluggish vaccination campaign, against a background of mistrust of the population and despite the increasingly injunctive measures of the authorities.
According to the Gogov site, which aggregates data from the regions and the media for lack of official statistics, 28.4 million people have received at least one dose of one of the three approved Russian vaccines, or nearly 19.5% of the population.
Of these, 18.7 million Russians received both doses.
The population remains very skeptical about vaccines, a poll by the independent Levada center published this week showing, for example, that 54% of Russians do not plan to be vaccinated.
Moscow, the most affected city in the country, has reintroduced in recent weeks restrictive measures such as the return of compulsory teleworking for some employees, the compulsory vaccination of employees in the service sector or the creation of a health pass for go to the restaurant.
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