Russia confirmed 9,328 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 4,949,573.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that the official monitoring and response centre said Monday.

The national COVID-19 death toll rose by 340 to 116,211 in the past day, while the number of the country's recoveries grew by 7,181 to 4,563,254. Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia's worst-hit region, has registered 3,573 new cases, taking the city's total to 1,140,670. According to the official data, as of Saturday, 23,858,201 doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in Russia that has a population of more than 144 million.