Moscow, Feb 9 (IANS) Russia has confirmed 165,643 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 13,147,666, the official monitoring and response center has said.
The national Covid-19 death toll grow by 698 to 336,721, while recoveries increased by 81,188 to 10,706,142, it added on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia’s worst-hit region, reported 12,902 new cases, taking its total caseload to 2,524,235, Xinhua news agency reported.
Alexander Gintsburg, Director of Russia’s Gamaleya National Research Center, said on Monday that the Omicron variant accounted for nearly 95 per cent of the cases in the capital.
According to official data, nearly 85 million Russians have been vaccinated with at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose, and more than 80 million of them had been fully vaccinated as of Friday.
–IANS
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