MOSCOW—Russia reported 8,855 new cases of the CCP virus on Saturday, June 6, pushing the total number of infections to 458,689.
Officials said 197 people died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official nationwide death toll to 5,725.
Russia has the world’s third-highest number of confirmed cases after the United States and Brazil. A video released by the Russian ministry of defense on Thursday showed the ministry is preparing to launch the testing of a COVID-19 vaccine on humans.
The vaccine is developed by the Russian Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology. The head of the center, Alexander Ginsburg, said in an interview with Russian TV channel “Russia 1” that he expects the mass-production of the vaccine at the end of summer.