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Russia recorded 8,828 new coronavirus cases, including 2,541 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 4,753,789 since the pandemic began.
The coronavirus crisis centre said 399 more deaths were confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 107,900.
Scientists have recommended that people who have experienced smell loss due to Covid-19 should try “smell training,” PA reports.
Involving sniffing at least four different odours twice daily for several months, smell loss expert Prof Carl Philpott, from the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School, said that the method “aims to help recovery based on neuroplasticity - the brain’s ability to reorganise itself to compensate for a change or injury”.
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