For the first time since the outbreak of the plague, Russia registers more than 100,000 verified Koruna a day.
The number of positives in the country in the last day stands at 113,122 - the ninth day in a row where the record has been broken each time again.
According to health officials in the country, 668 people have died from the virus in the last 24 hours.
This is after the total number of victims claimed by the virus crossed the 700,000 mark yesterday.
According to Bloomberg News, Russia's population fell 1.04 million last year.
"Such a significant decline is unprecedented in the entire history of Russia," said demographer Vera Karpova of Moscow University.
"Despite the fact that they predicted a decline even before the epidemic began, its scale is much larger - even compared to the worst forecast," she added.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said this week that Omicron has become a dominant strain among those infected.
Sobianin warned that the Russian capital is expected to see a growing rise in morbidity for at least another two weeks.
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