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WHO Sees Russia Pandemic Stabilizing as Total Cases Hit 200,000

  • Global health official praises Moscow’s lockdown extension
  • Russia is No. 6 in world with more than 10,000 new daily cases

Health workers arrive at a hospital where patients infected with coronavirus are being treated in Khimki,

Photographer: Kirill Kudryavstev/AFP via Getty Images

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The World Health Organization offered a glimmer of hope to Russia’s escalating efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic by saying the spread of the deadly pathogen in the country may be reaching its peak.