Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday that the coronavirus situation in the country remained very strained and that many people were not following all safety guidelines, the RIA news agency reported.
As of Tuesday, Russia had reported 1,326,178 infections. It has the fourth largest number of cases in the world behind the United States, India and Brazil.
(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Alex Richardson)
