Russia has confirmed 232,000 cases of coronavirus - the second-highest toll in the world after the US.
BBC News reports in the last 24 hours the country has reported 10,899 infections, the tenth consecutive day that number has been above 10,000. Among the infected is President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
He is the latest high profile official to test positive after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin caught the illness.
The news comes the day after President Putin eased the country's lockdown.
Despite the high number of confirmed cases, Russia's death toll is only 2,116.
Government officials say the country's mass testing programme is responsible for that low mortality rate, but many believe the number is in fact far higher.
[Source: BBC]
