First graders are seen in the classroom on the first day of the new school year in Moscow. File photo/Reuters

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Moscow's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the city's coronavirus situation was getting worse, and extended a remote learning period for secondary schools as infections climbed nationwide at a near-record daily rate.

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The secondary school children from classes 6-11 will continue to learn remotely for two more weeks until Nov.22 due to the pandemic, Mayor said on Thursday.

Russia reports 19,404 new infections in the previous 24 hours, including 5,255 in Moscow.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has said there are no plans for a broad lockdown for now and that targeted measures are enough because Russia is better prepared than it was at the beginning of the pandemic.

"The coronavirus situation in Moscow began to get worse again at the start of this week, as we can see from the number of patients and hospitalisations," Sobyanin said on his website.

Russia reported 19,404 new infections in the previous 24 hours, including 5,255 in Moscow, and 292 virus-related deaths nationwide, pushing the official death toll to 29,509.