Previously, the largest number of victims was registered on December 24 last year – 635.
A record number of Covid-19 casualties have been registered in St Petersburg, where the European Football Championship is taking place, with 119 deaths. In Moscow, 121 people died from Covid-19.
The quarter-finals of the European Football Championship are scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg on Friday, and the organizers do not intend to cancel it due to the coronavirus outbreak.
There have been 20,616 cases of coronavirus infection in Russia in the last 24 hours.
It has already been reported that the new coronavirus delta, or Indian strain, is currently spreading rapidly in Russia.
Russia has the fifth highest number of infections in the world.
In Russia, only 21.2 million of the approximately 146 million people in the country have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to media estimates and data published on the Gogov website about the prevalence of Covid-19 in Russian regions.
A recent survey shows that 60% of Russians do not plan to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
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