Russia reports fresh record of daily COVID cases

Russia reported a record daily number of COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as the Omicron variant of coronavirus spread across the country, authorities said.

New daily cases jumped to 141,883, up from 125,836 a day earlier. The government coronavirus task force also reported 678 deaths in the last 24 hours.

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