The active coronavirus cases in Russia exceeded the 1 million mark on Tuesday after 39,160 more infections were registered in the country over the past day.

Currently, the active cases stand at 1,004,844 while the total number of people exposed to the virus in Russia has mounted to 8.87 million, the coronavirus emergency task force said in a daily report.

In addition, Russia's single-day coronavirus death toll climbed to a new record as 1,211 people died of the disease in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall count to 249,215, it said.

Recoveries went up by 32,036 since Monday to reach 7.61 million.

Since December 2019, the pandemic has claimed more than 5.05 million lives in 192 countries and regions, with over 250.4 million cases reported worldwide, according to the US' Johns Hopkins University.