MOSCOW, May 29 — Russia reported 9,289 new Covid-19 cases today, including 3,241 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,053,748.

The government coronavirus task force said 401 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 120,807.

The federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and has said Russia recorded around 250,000 deaths related to Covid-19 from April 2020 to March 2021. — Reuters