Web Notifications

SaltWire.com would like to send you notifications for breaking news alerts.

Activate notifications?

NEWSLETTERS | PODCASTS | VIDEO | E-EDITIONS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Prince Edward Island > News > World

Russia reports more than 5,200 new coronavirus cases

Reuters | Posted: Aug. 8, 2020, 7:48 a.m. | Updated: Aug. 8, 2020, 6:40 a.m. | 1 Min Read

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS

Olive Tapenade & Vinho Verde | SaltWire

Watch on YouTube: "Olive Tapenade & Vinho Verde | SaltWire"

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities reported 5,212 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, pushing its national tally to 882,347, the fourth largest in the world.

The official death toll rose to 14,854 after officials said 129 people had died across the country in the last 24 hours.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; editing by Maria Kiselyova)

Share story:

Read More

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

More World Stories

Leonid Volkov, the top aide of Alexei Navalny, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Vilnius, Lithuania March 12, 2024.
1. 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri island, Italy, April 19, 2024.
2. 
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium November 8, 2023.
3. 
Signage is seen at the headquarters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 10, 2021.
4. 
A worker prepares a polling station ahead of Sunday's elections in Spain's autonomous Basque Country, where left-wing separatists of EH Bildu party seek to dislodge the conservative Basque Nationalist Party, in power almost continuously since the 1980's, in Bilbao, Spain, April 19, 2024.
5. 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri island, Italy, April 19, 2024.
6. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev attend a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Sputnik/Alexander Demyanchuk/Pool via
7. 
French police and members of French special police forces of Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) secure the area near Iran consulate where a man is threatening to blow himself up, in Paris, France, April 19, 2024.
8. 
ADVERTISEMENT