Russia reports 9,079 new COVID-19 cases and 466 deaths

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a sign outside a vaccination centre in the State Department Store, GUM, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in central Moscow, Russia January 18, 2021 REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

Russia on Wednesday reported 9,079 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,116 in Moscow, taking the national infection tally to 4,351,553 since the pandemic began.

The government coronavirus taskforce said that 466 people had died in past 24 hours, pushing its death toll to 90,275.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova)