Russia’s COVID infections on the rise

Russia faces its third surge of the coronavirus. Over the weekend, authorities in Moscow reported the highest number of new infections yet. Irina Yakutenko, a Russian science writer and the author of “The Virus that Broke the Planet,” joins us from Berlin with the latest.

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