Russia sees largest COVID cases daily increase since April

Passengers walk along the platform of a metro station in Moscow

(Reuters) - Russia registered 17,126 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest daily increase since April 2, the country's anti-pandemic taskforce said in a statement.

The taskforce said 44 people in Russia died of the disease in the previous day.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison Williams)