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Russia hits new Covid daily deaths record as virus bounces back globally
Medics treat a patient with coronavirus (left) as others prepare a patent to move at an ICU at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 19, 2021
RUSSIA reported a new record for Covid-19 deaths today, with 1,015 people dying from the virus in the preceding 24 hours.
The new coronavirus wave brings the country’s Covid death toll to 225,325, the highest in Europe.
Though proportionally lower, at 1,526 deaths per million people, than the figures for Britain (2,068) Italy (2,182) or France (1,666), deaths are rising much faster as the country has a comparatively low vaccination rate with just 32 per cent of the population fully vaccinated so far.
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