“Over the past 24 hours in Russia there have been confirmed cases of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 - 7790 in 83 regions, including 2,450 (31.5%) without clinical manifestations were detected actively,” the report said.

The day before in Russia, 7843 cases of COVID-19 were detected.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that about half of patients with coronavirus in Russia have no symptoms of the disease.

She also said that the number of new cases of COVID-19 could reach a minimum of one month.

State Duma deputy, former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko in an interview with the NSN, assessed the possibility of a new epidemic in the future.