People stand in a line to receive a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a vaccination centre located at a shopping mall in Oryol, Russia October 25, 2021. Picture taken October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Russia’s daily COVID-19 death toll rose to a record high of 1,178 on Tuesday amid a surge that has forced officials to re-impose a partial lockdown nationwide.
The government coronavirus task force also reported 39,008 new infections in the last 24 hours, including 5,736 in Moscow.
Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrew Cawthorne
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