Moscow, May 12 (TIWN) Russia registered 8,217 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 4,905,059, the country's Covid-19 response centre said in a statement Wednesday.

According to the statement, 4,518,529 people have recovered, including 8,614 over the past day.   Moscow, the country's worst-hit region, reported 2,718 cases, taking its tally of infections to 1,124,630.   Over 132 million coronavirus tests have been conducted across the country so far.