MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s daily COVID-19 cases surged to 98,040 on Friday, a new record high for the eighth consecutive day as the Omicron variant continued to spread, the government’s coronavirus task force said.
The number of new infections was a significant jump from the 88,816 reported on Thursday. Officials also said that 673 people had died in the last 24 hours.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Tom Balmforth)
