Bottles of Russia's 'Sputnik-V' Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Tver, Russia (File photo)
MOSCOW: Russia reported 8,329 Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including 2,765 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,871,843. The government coronavirus task force said 370 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 112,992. The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 250,000 deaths related to Covid-19 between April 2020 and March 2021.