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Russia reports record Covid-affected daily deaths

Russia’s Covid-19 caseload grew by 22,277 to 6,557,068, while the number of recoveries increased by 19,368 to 5,848,340, Xinhua news agency reported.

IANS | Moscow | August 14, 2021 7:54 am

Russia reports record Covid-affected daily deaths

Russia has confirmed a record daily number of 815 deaths caused by Covid-19 infections, raising the nationwide death toll to 168,864, the official monitoring and response centre said on Friday.

Russia’s Covid-19 caseload grew by 22,277 to 6,557,068, while the number of recoveries increased by 19,368 to 5,848,340, Xinhua news agency reported.

Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia’s worst-hit region, registered 2,529 new cases, taking the city’s total to 1,537,888.

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In a tongue-in-cheek gesture amid its growing tensions with its western neighbours, the Russian Foreign Ministry has renamed its Department of European Cooperation as the Department of European Problems (DEP) - on its website.

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As many as 8,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia's western front-line Kursk region and are expected to enter into combat "in the coming days", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said