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COVID-19: Russia hits record number of daily

coronavirus deaths, cases continue to surge

Medical workers wearing a personal protective equipment PPE tend to a patient infected with the
Covid-19 at the intensive care unit of the Mariinsky Hospital. - Copyright OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP

Russia has reported record highs in fatalities So they don't get vaccinated," said Sergey Babikov,

and new cases of COVID-19 for the fifth time in head of an intensive care unit in the southwestern
a week as the country reels from a fourth wave region of Stavropol.
of the deadly virus.
The country, which has a vaccination rate of "I didn't get vaccinated. Like everyone, I was

under 30%, reported 883 fatalities and 25,781 postponing it again and again.
new cases over the past 24 hours.
Health workers have blamed the resurgence on And then it [catching the virus] happened in one
the reluctance of young people to get the jab. second," a patient said.

"Young people don't care that much about their Russia, with a population of 146 million people,
health, because they think they are young, currently has Europe's highest death toll from the
strong, and healthy. pandemic, standing at 210,000 people.

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