Moscow, May 18, 2020, SPA -- Russia on Monday reported 8,926 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, pushing its nationwide case tally to 290,678, according to Reuters. The daily rise in cases was for the third day in a row below 10,000, a threshold that it has been above for much of May. Russia's coronavirus taskforce said 91 people had died overnight, bringing the death toll to 2,722. --SPA 10:48 LOCAL TIME 07:48 GMT 0006 www.spa.gov.sa/w1332597