In Russia in the last 24 hours, 820 deaths caused by Covid-19 have been ascertained, the maximum in a single day since the beginning of the epidemic: the Tass reports citing the anticoronavirus operations center. According to official data from the operations center, 19,630 new cases of Covid were recorded in Russia over the last day. The cases of Covid-19 ascertained in Russia since the beginning of the epidemic are a total of 6,824,540.
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The sad record beats the one recorded only the previous day (19,536 cases and 809 deaths) to witness the impetuous gallop of infections in the country. The number of deaths from Covid-19 in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from the American University Johns Hopkins, has exceeded 170,000.