Russia's state statistics agency Rosstat said Thursday that more than 71,000 people died of coronavirus in the country in November, setting a new fatality record since the start of the pandemic.
Due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus infection, the Russian authorities had to implement various restrictions in many regions of Russia. One of them is a
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was facing a very difficult situation as far as the development of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia was concerned
Russia said Wednesday 1,028 people died of Covid over the past 24 hours, a new record, as President Vladimir Putin mulls introducing nationwide restrictions to curb the spread of the disease.
The country recorded 34,074 new coronavirus cases, according to a government tally.
Russian officials have been accused of downplaying the severity of the pandemic, but even the official figures bring the country's official COVID-19 death toll to 226,353 the highest in Europe.