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Medical staff members wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus treat a patient with coronavirus at an ICU of the Clinical hospital in Volgograd, Russia, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Russia's state coronavirus task force reported a total of 11.8 million confirmed cases in the pandemic and 331,349 deaths âÄ” by far the highest death toll in Europe. However, reports by Russia's state statistics service Rosstat, which uses wider criteria for counting virus-linked deaths, revealed much higher numbers. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov)