MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday accepted the third resignation of a regional governor within two days after calling on Russia's far-flung areas to do more to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Russia has reported 4,149 cases of the coronavirus, with the majority of those in Moscow. But cases have now appeared in 78 of the vast country's 85 federal regions, and regional governors are under pressure to try to slow its progress.
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