Russia reported 8,731 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 2,662 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 4,805,288, Reuters reported. The government coronavirus task force said 397 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 110,128. The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and reported a toll of more than 225,000 from April 2020 to February.