Russia reports 11,231 new COVID-19 cases, total reaches 177,160

Russia reported 11,231 new COVID-19 confirmed cases over the past 24 hours, with the total number of novel coronavirus infections rising to 177,160, official data showed on Thursday.

It was the fourth day Russia recorded a daily rise of over 10,000 cases.

Meanwhile, 88 people died overnight, bringing the coronavirus death toll to 1,625 as of Thursday morning at 10:45.

Among the new cases, 6,703 were registered in Moscow, pushing the total cases in the city to 92,676.

Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, revealed on Wednesday that the spike of confirmed cases were the result of growing testing capacity.