This was reported by TASS with reference to the Ministry of Health of the country.

It is noted that to date, more than 6.4 thousand people have recovered, 653 have died from the effects of infection.

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic.

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.