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The coronavirus pandemic is starting to inflict a greater toll on areas of Russia beyond Moscow, the Kremlin has said.
“The situation is quite serious,” Dmitry Peskov, the Russian government spokesman, told reporters on a conference call on Monday. “The epidemic has stricken the regions, it has gone east of Moscow.”
