MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday reported 5,849 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, pushing its nationwide tally to 68,622.

Sixty people with the virus died overnight, pushing the death toll to 615, Russia's official crisis response centre said.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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