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Newshour: 16/10/2021 20:06 GMT: Russian Covid daily deaths pass 1,000

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Russian Covid daily deaths pass 1,000

16/10/2021 20:06 GMT

16/10/2021 20:06 GMT: Russian Covid daily deaths pass 1,000

BBC World Service - Newshour, Russian Covid daily deaths pass 1,000

Daily Covid related deaths have reached an all-time high this week in Russia

Daily Covid related deaths have reached an all-time high this week in Russia.

Russia has passed 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths for the first time since the pandemic began. The Kremlin has blamed the number on people not taking up the vaccination. Only about a third of the nation has had the vaccine.

Also in the programme: British politicians reflect on the murder of their colleague David Amess, and anti-government protesters take to the streets in Sudan.

(Picture: Health workers escort a Covid-19 patient to a hospital in Moscow. CREDIT: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV)

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