Russia registers 442 new deaths in all-time high
Russia registered 442 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, marking the country's highest single-day death toll from the disease since the pandemic began.
An additional 22,410 new cases of COVID-19 were also confirmed nationwide over the past day. Russia's cumulative total now stands at 1,971,013 cases with 33,931 deaths, according to the country's coronavirus response headquarters.
Moscow remains the epicenter of the country's outbreak and recent surge. More than a quarter of the newly confirmed cases -- 5,882 -- and nearly 17% of the new deaths -- 74 -- were reported in the capital, according to Russia's coronavirus response headquarters.
Despite the growing number of infections and deaths, Russian authorities have repeatedly said they have no plans to impose another nationwide lockdown.
The Eastern European country of 145 million people has the fifth-highest tally of COVID-19 cases in the world, behind only the United States, India, Brazil and France, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
ABC News' Alina Lobzina contributed to this report.