MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Health Ministry issued a recommendation on Thursday that Russians stay at home this weekend because of a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, the RIA news agency reported.
Russia reported 11,493 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, just short of the most confirmed in a single day during the pandemic, pushing the overall total to 1,260,112.
(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Toby Chopra)
