In Russia in the last 24 hours, 973 deaths caused by Covid-19 have been recorded, the maximum in a day since the beginning of the epidemic: the Tass reports, citing the national anti-coronavirus operations center.
Yesterday the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, reprimanded by TASS, said that the current vaccination rate against Covid in Russia "is low, inadmissible low".
"So we have such high mortality," he added.
Peskov then stressed that "the only thing that saves lives is the vaccine".