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Russia registers over 180 new cases of coronavirus

Russia has reported a record number of new coronavirus cases. In Russia, 24 new cases of coronavirus were registered in the last 180.071 hours.

This increase in the number of cases is said to be due to the Omicron variant.

The number of cases registered in the last 24 hours in Russia is about 2800 more than the day before. While the numbers are significantly higher than those in mid-January, when there were about 17 daily cases.

In the last 24 hours, 661 deaths have been registered in Russia.

Since the start of the pandemic, Russia has reported 12.8 million cases of coronavirus infection, and 335.414 deaths.