Russia Reports New Daily Record of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia recorded 88,816 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily increase to date, taking the nationwide tally to 11,404,617, the official monitoring and response center said Thursday.
The country's nationwide death toll increased by 665 to 328,770, while the number of recoveries increased by 29,754 to 10,129,691, Xinhua news agency reported.
Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia's worst-hit region, reported 26,586 new cases, taking its total to 2,259,422.
Moscow's health authorities announced Wednesday there was an unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases among children in the past two weeks.
Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said Wednesday that the Omicron variant has become the dominant COVID-19 strain in the capital amid a surge in infections, noting that it has accounted for 80 percent of all new cases.