Coronavirus cases in Russia exceeds 200,000

Representative image. (Reuters photo)

The Russian authorities said on Sunday they had recorded 11,012 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 209,688.

COVID-19 Pandemic Tracker: 15 countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases, deaths

Russia's coronavirus taskforce said 88 people had died in the past day, pushing the national death toll to 1,915.

Russian coronavirus cases overtook French and German infections this week to become the fifth highest in the world.