Russia hits new peak of daily deaths amid Delta spread
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Russia on Thursday reported 672 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, according to a government tally, setting a pandemic high of fatalities for the third day in a row, reports agencies.
The government coronavirus task force also confirmed 23,543 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the most since 17 January, including 7,597 in Moscow.
It comes as health clinics in Moscow will begin offering booster vaccine shots against Covid-19 today, the city’s mayor said, as Russian officials scramble to contain a surge in cases blamed on the highly infectious Delta variant.
The health ministry had said revaccination would begin on 1 July, news agencies reported, making Russia one of the first countries in the world to officially launch a booster shot programme for people already fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said revaccination was available with any of Russia’s four registered vaccines.
However, he flagged that the flagship Sputnik V and the one-component Sputnik-Light would initially be used at eight clinics across the city.
The health ministry yesterday issued new regulations that officially recommended revaccination, news agencies said.
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