Russia marks record casualties of more than 25,000 cases with Ovid 19

Thus, the total number of Coronavirus victims in the state that first adopted a vaccine against Avid-19 went to 142,253. This is among the highest figures in the world.

The Tarsk-force for the choreography also reported 25,082 new cases in the last 24 hours, including about 5,700 in Moscow's capital alone. In this way, the total number of infections amounted to over 5 million and 785, which is also among the highest numbers in the world.

However, Russia's Federal Statistics Agency has other figures about pandemic victims, suggesting that this number is much higher.

According to the agency, from April of last year to May of this year, some 290,000 deaths linked to Devi-19 in Russia have been recorded, Reuters writes, broadcast Express newspaper.

In contrast, in August last year, Russia became the world's first state to adopt a vaccine against the new disease. Its move was criticised and saw with scepticism by experts, because approval was still done without the third phase of testing being done well.