Russia records 1,254 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours

For the third day in a row, the daily death toll from the emerging coronavirus in Russia exceeded the 1,250 death mark.

And the Russian Operations Center for Combating the Virus announced in its daily report, according to the Interfax news agency, that it had monitored 1,254 new deaths during the past 24 hours, the highest daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic.

The center indicated that 37,120 confirmed cases of the virus have been recorded, and 36,172 patients have recovered, in addition to conducting more than 220 million laboratory tests to diagnose infections with "Covid-19" so far.

He noted that the total number of HIV infections in Russia was 9,294,188, including 262,843 deaths and 7,992,426 cases of recovery.

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