Russian authorities said on Saturday they had recorded 10,817 new cases of the coronavirus in the last day, pushing the nationwide tally to 198,676.
Russia's coronavirus taskforce said that 104 people had died overnight, bringing the national death toll to 1,827.
Russian coronavirus cases overtook French and German infections this week to become the fifth-highest in the world.
A municipal worker cleans and disinfects an area near an installation dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, by the Triumphal Arch, which commemorates Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812, on Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow