Moscow, August 26, 2021, SPA -- Russia on Thursday reported a record 820 coronavirus-related deaths amid a surge of cases blamed on the Delta variant, according to Reuters. The government's coronavirus task force also reported 19,630 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. The total number of infections has reached 6,824,540 cases, while the country's death toll has reached 179,243. The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 213.85 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.46 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University. --SPA 12:33 LOCAL TIME 09:33 GMT 0008 www.spa.gov.sa/w1609655