A restaurant employee wears a protective face shield and mask due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
July 9, 2020
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday reported 6,509 new cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its official nationwide tally to 707,301, the fourth largest caseload in the world.
The national coronavirus taskforce said 176 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official virus death toll to 10,843.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)
