MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Tuesday that Russia had so far recorded 1,682 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant across 42 regions, as authorities brace for a significant rise in infections.
Omicron has pushed COVID-19 case figures to record highs in parts of western Europe and the United States but the variant has been slower to hit Russia, where daily COVID cases have fallen from a peak of 41,335 registered in early November. (Reporting by Anton Zverev; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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