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Health

Russia's new coronavirus cases fall for third day running as total passes 62,000

A law enforcement officer wearing a protective face mask walks across Red Square amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

Russia recorded 4,774 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, a fall in the number of daily new cases for the third day running, bringing its nationwide tally to 62,773, the Russian coronavirus crisis response centre said on Thursday.

Forty-two people with the virus died in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll to 555, it said.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov, Writing by Alexander Marrow, editing by Maria Kiselyova)

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