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Agence France-Presse

Russia on Wednesday reported more than 900 daily coronavirus deaths for the first time, as the country struggles with stubbornly high infection rates driven by the Delta variant and low vaccination take-up.
A government tally recorded 929 Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, Russia’s highest daily fatalities since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The new figures bring Russia’s total deaths from coronavirus to 212,625 – the highest toll in Europe.
The world’s fifth worst-hit country with more than 7.5 million infections, Russia has seen cases climb since August as vaccinations stalled.
Putin says ‘several dozen’ in his circle have coronavirus
While several Russia-made jabs have been available for months, authorities have struggled to inoculate a vaccine-sceptic population.
Independent polls show that more than half of Russians do not plan to get a shot.
As of Wednesday, just under 30 per cent of the population had been fully vaccinated, according to the Gogov website, which tallies Covid-19 data from the regions.
The surging infections have come without any real pandemic restrictions to limit the spread, but several regions have reintroduced QR codes for access to public places.

But Moscow – the epicentre of Russia’s outbreak – has so far withheld from bringing back restrictions.
Authorities say that the highly contagious Delta variant now accounts for all of the cases in the Russian capital.
Independent experts have accused authorities of downplaying the severity of the outbreak.
Under a broader definition for deaths linked to the coronavirus, statistics agency Rosstat reported in August that Russia had seen more than 350,000 fatalities.


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A health worker pushes a woman on a wheelchair at a hospital for Covid-19 patients in Kommunarka outside Moscow on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

TOPSHOT - A serviceman of Russia's Emergencies Ministry, wearing protective gear, disinfects Kievsky railway terminal amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Moscow on September 2021. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

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The world’s fifth worst-hit country recorded 929 Covid-19 deaths for the first time
Russia has struggled with low vaccination take-up as polls show that more than half of residents do not plan to get a shot



The world’s fifth worst-hit country recorded 929 Covid-19 deaths for the first time.


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