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Russia’s daily COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 for first time

People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus leave a subway in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Russia's daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record in a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe strain on the country's health care system. The record for daily COVID-19 deaths in Russia has been broken repeatedly over the past few weeks as fatalities steadily approach 1,000 in a single day. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A young woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus leaves a subway in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Russia's daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record in a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe strain on the country's health care system. The record for daily COVID-19 deaths in Russia has been broken repeatedly over the past few weeks as fatalities steadily approach 1,000 in a single day. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A woman touches the sculpture 'Sad Angel', a memorial for St. Petersburg's medical workers who died from coronavirus during their work in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Russia's daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record in a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe strain on the country's health care system. The record for daily COVID-19 deaths in Russia has been broken repeatedly over the past few weeks as fatalities steadily approach 1,000 in a single day. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) Medical workers carry a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Medical workers carry a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) A medical worker carries a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Medical workers carry a patient suspected of having coronavirus on a stretcher at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. Russia's daily death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 1000 for the first time as the country faces a sustained wave of rising infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus leave a subway in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Russia's daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record in a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe strain on the country's health care system. The record for daily COVID-19 deaths in Russia has been broken repeatedly over the past few weeks as fatalities steadily approach 1,000 in a single day. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia’s daily COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 for first time