Russia’s daily Covid-19 count soars above 110,000

A medical staff member leans on a door while a patient with Covid-19 gets through a Magnetic resonance imaging system at an ICU of an hospital in Krasnodar, southern Russia (AP)

The daily count of new coronavirus infections in Russia has spiked above 110,000 as the highly contagious Omicron variant races through the country.

On Saturday, the state coronavirus task force reported 113,122 new infections over the past 24 hours – an all-time high and a sevenfold increase from early in the month, when daily case counts were about 15,000.