Sun 30 January 2022:
On Saturday, Russia reported more than 100,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time, as the country battles an outbreak of the highly contagious omicron variety.
Over the course of 24 hours, the government’s COVID-19 portal recorded 113,122 new cases, virtually double the number of daily infections just a week ago.
The number of cases in Russia is steadily increasing, with omicron accounting for the vast majority of them.
Following a strict but temporary national lockdown at the start of the pandemic, Russia has been hesitant to impose restrictions, preferring to safeguard its struggling economy.
But with four vaccines widely available for months, Russians remain reluctant to get jabbed with just under half of the population fully vaccinated.
Russia’s government figures have reported 330,111 deaths from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, the highest death toll in Europe.
However, statistics agency Rosstat disputes those findings, claiming that the overall death toll is close to double the official figure since virus-related deaths are counted under a broader definition.
Rosstat announced on Friday that Russia’s population fell by more than a million people last year, a historic low not seen since the Soviet Union’s collapse.
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