MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record daily number of COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the Omicron variant of coronavirus spread across the country, authorities said.
New daily cases jumped to 125,836, up from 124,070 a day earlier. The government coronavirus task force also reported 663 deaths in the last 24 hours.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Alison Williams)
