MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported 887 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, the largest single-day death toll it has recorded since the pandemic began and the fourth day in a row it has set that record.
The government coronavirus task force also said it had recorded 24,522 new cases in the last 24 hours.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)