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As Russia begins a mass vaccination drive, the country on Friday reported a new record for daily coronavirus-related fatalities.
According to the report of health officials, 613 virus deaths occurred over the past 24 hours, crossing the 600 mark for the first time since the pandemic started.
While infections climbed to 2,597,711, total fatalities stood at 45,893, placing Russia’s caseload fourth-highest in the world.
Russia has reported a much lower death rate than other badly hit countries. This raised concerns that authorities have downplayed the pandemic.
Data published by the country’s federal statistics service on Thursday showed excess deaths of nearly 165,000 year-on-year between March and October, suggesting virus deaths could be much higher.
Although, in recent weeks Russia’s second wave has continued to surge but the country has refrained from reimposing a strict nationwide lockdown as it did in the spring.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday said that despite the uptick in deaths there were no plans for a new lockdown, though some cities have reintroduced quarantine measures.
Authorities in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg this week warned of an imminent lockdown and shuttered restaurants for the New Year holidays.
Russia was one of the first countries to register a vaccine — Sputnik V, named after the Soviet-era satellite — but did so before beginning final clinical trials.
Sputnik V’s developers last month said interim results had shown the vaccine was 95 percent effective.
Although the jab is still in its third and final stage of clinical trials involving some 40,000 volunteers, Moscow last week began innoculating people in high-risk groups, including medical workers and teachers.
Russia’s defence ministry announced last month that a mass vaccination campaign has been rolled out in the military, aiming to inoculate over 400,000 servicemen, including 80,000 by the end of this year.
On Thursday Russia’s space agency said it planned to offer Sputnik V to cosmonauts.
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