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Russia’s cases pass 200,000

(UTV | COLOMBO) – Russia has recorded 11,012 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing its total number of infections to 209,688.

A further 88 coronavirus-related deaths were reported in the country on Sunday, taking the total to 1,915, health authorities said.

Cases in Russia have been rising by more than 10,000 a day over the past week. Officials have partly attributed the increase to mass testing.

Russia has the fifth-highest number of cases in the world after the UK (216,525), Italy (218, 268), Spain (223,578) and the US (1,309,541), according to data collated by Johns Hopkins University.

The country’s reported mortality rate, however, remains relatively low.

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