“I explain by the fact that these 6 thousand people - they just appeared on the day when in the morning, in accordance with the WHO recommendations, the government recommended everyone to expand the circle of tested contact persons,” TASS quotes Skvortsov.
According to her, we are talking not only about contacts “for confirmed coronavirus”, but also contacts with any sick SARS “and so on”.
“Therefore, this first wave here - it was associated with the fact that this day really gave a significant influx of new research,” she added.
The head of the FMBA also said that Russia is not far from the peak incidence of coronavirus, a plateau may come before May.
On April 19, the Coronavirus Control Headquarters reported that 6060 new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in 78 regions in Russia per day.
According to information on April 20, in Russia, 4268 cases of virus infection were registered per day, the total number of detected cases reached 47121.