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Russia reports 8,329 new COVID-19 cases, 370 deaths

FILE PHOTO: People line up to receive a dose of Sputnik V
FILE PHOTO: People line up to receive a dose of Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia reported 8,329 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 2,765 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,871,843.

The government coronavirus task force said 370 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 112,992.

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 250,000 deaths related to COVID-19 between April 2020 and March 2021.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by Jason Neely)