MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s COVID-19 case tally passed the 3.5 million mark on Friday as authorities confirmed 24,715 new infections in the last 24 hours, including 5,534 in Moscow.
Officials said 555 died overnight, taking the official death toll to 64,495 since the pandemic began.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)