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Russia Sets New Daily Record of COVID Cases

VOA News

   Russia reported 20,582 new COVID cases Friday, a record daily high.

   DmitryPeskov, a Kremlin spokesman, did not give any details about what
   steps public health officials would take to curb the uptick.

   With more than 1.7 million COVID infections in Russia,onlytheUnited
   States,Indiaand Brazil have more coronavirus cases.

   India reported more than 47,000 new COVID cases Friday.

   Anyone traveling from Denmark to Britain mustnowself-isolate for 14
   days. Denmark was removedFridayfromBritain's corridor of travel,
   following a coronavirusoutbreakon mink farms in the Scandanavian
   country.

   Denmark has announced it is culling more than 15 million minksin an
   effort tohalt the spread of a mutated form of the coronavirus that has
   appeared in the minks.
   The coronavirus is sweeping across Europeagain. England began a
   four-week lockdown Thursday, while Greece begins a three-week shutdown
   Saturday.

   Italy starting is beginning new coronavirus restrictions across the
   country. In the so-called 'soft lockdown' the country has been divided
   by colors according to risk with set of restrictions differing by
   color.

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