Confirmed virus cases hit daily high in Moscow

Russia's national coronavirus task force reported 17,378 new infection cases on Monday. Over half of the cases have been reported in Moscow, where the infection numbers have tripled this month.

The soaring infection count has caused alarm among officials and increased measures to obstruct the spread. Russian medics have raised alarms as the variant of the virus first identified in India continues to rapidly spread among people. Russians are widely resistant to vaccinations and only about 12% of the population has received a shot. Nearly 5.3 million infection cases have been reported in the country of 146 million throughout the pandemic, with 128,911 deaths.