Colombo: Sri Lanka has reported the highest single-day Covid-19 fatalities, taking the overall death toll to 2,011, according to the Health Ministry.
On Friday, the Health Minister reported 101 new fatalities, reports Xinhua news agency.
Meanwhile, a total of 216,134 confirmed cases have been reported in the country to date, with over 2,600 new patients detected in the past 24 hours. The active patient count is 31,986, the Ministry said.
Sri Lanka is presently in the midst of a third wave of the pandemic, and the country is under a strict nationwide travel restriction which is expected to be lifted on June 14.
Within the past two months, over 100,000 new infections have been reported as the highly contagious Delta and Alpha variants of Covid-19 were detected in several areas, health officials said.
With the aim to bring down the infection rate, the government said it is planning to vaccinate at least 70 per cent of its population by August or September this year.
Meanwhile, Russia has reported another 12,505 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number of daily infections since February 22, according to the official data released on Friday.
The total number of coronavirus cases in the country now stands at 5,180,454 Xinhua news agency reported.
The national Covid-19 death toll rose by 396 to 125,674 in the past day, while the number of the country’s recoveries grew by 10,188 to 4,782,183.
Meanwhile, Moscow, Russia’s worst-hit region, reported 5,853 new cases, taking its total to 1,220,312.
More than 141.9 million Covid-19 tests have been conducted across the country.