On Thursday, Russia reported 672 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, according to a government tally, setting a pandemic high of fatalities for the third day in a row.
The daily death count released Thursday topped Wednesday’s record of 669 and Tuesday’s of 652.
The country is battling a surging outbreak driven by the highly infectious delta variant and worsened by a labbing jab drive, with President Vladimir Putin urging Russians on national television Wednesday to get vaccinated.
According to the Gogov website, As of Thursday, just 17.4 million of Russia’s population of about 146 million people or about 12 percent- had been fully vaccinated.
Russia, with 135,866 deaths from the virus, has the highest official toll from Covid-19 in Europe.
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