Russia’s daily COVID-19 death toll has reached a record high for a second day in a row amid a surge in cases blamed by the authorities on a low vaccination rate that has forced the imposition of a nationwide workplace shutdown.
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RFE/RL: Russia’s COVID-19 death toll hits record high for second day in a row
Alexander Shakotko, who heads up the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU), speaks during an interview with AFP in the intensive care unit for Covid-19 coronavirus patients in the Moscow Sklifosovsky emergency hospital in Moscow on Oct. 20, 2021.
