Russia has recorded 10,817 new cases in the past 24 hours, increasing the country’s total to 198,676.
The Russian coronavirus taskforce said 104 people died overnight, taking the national death toll to 1,827.
The number of infections in the country has been rising by more than 10,000 a day since Sunday. Russia now has the fifth-highest number of cases in the world.
It overtook France (176,202) and Germany (170,588) on Thursday and is closing on the UK total of 212,629 cases, according to figures collated by Johns Hopkins University.
The US has by far the largest number of cases, with over 1.2 million, while Spain (222,857) and Italy (217,185) have the highest number of cases in the EU.
