Russia reports new all-time records of daily coronavirus cases and deaths

MOSCOW:

Russia

's

coronavirus cases

rose by 13,868 on Tuesday, a new daily record since the start of the

outbreak

early this year, pushing the overall total number of infections to 1,326,178.


The previous record of 13,634 new cases was registered on Sunday.

Russia's coronavirus crisis centre also reported a record daily rise of 244 deaths from the virus, bringing the official death toll to 22,966.