Russia grappling with 3 times more COVID cases than it had last fall
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Moscow - Russia is once again grappling with a surge in coronavirus cases. The rate of new daily infections is currently three times higher than what the country was seeing a year ago, despite vaccines now being widely available in the country.
On Tuesday, Russia reported 895 fatalities and 25,110 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of officially reported cases since the start of the pandemic to more than 7.6 million.
"The increase in the incidence of COVID-19 infections has amounted to almost 31% since the beginning of September," Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said in a Tuesday meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin. "This is 3.1 times more than in the same period last year."
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