MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday recorded 16,202 new coronavirus cases and a record high 346 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 26,935.
With 1,563,976 infections, the country of around 145 million has the world’s fourth largest number of cases, behind the United States, India and Brazil.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Jason Neely)