MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s official coronavirus death toll rose to 3,099 on Thursday after officials said 127 people had died in the last 24 hours.
Russia’s authorities reported 8,849 new cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing the nationwide case tally to 317,554.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Alison Williams)