MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported a record number of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours on Tuesday as the Omicron variant of the virus spread across the country, the government coronavirus task force said.
New daily cases jumped to 67,809, from 65,109 a day earlier. The task force also reported 681 deaths.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Alex Richardson)
