Russia reports 9,437 new COVID-19 cases, 404 deaths

FILE PHOTO: A health worker wearing protective gear takes a swab from a woman to test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Gemotest laboratory in Moscow, Russia April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Russia on Monday reported 9,437 new COVID-19 cases, including 1,353 in Moscow, pushing the national infection tally to 4,400,045 since the pandemic began.

The government coronavirus taskforce also said that 404 people had died in the last 24 hours, taking Russia's death toll to 92,494.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Toby Chopra)