According to her, the growth rate of diseases has been declining over the past ten days.

“Today we even saw a significant decrease in cases (infection. - RT ) in Moscow ,” she said.

As the representative of WHO noted, it was necessary “to look very carefully at the next two weeks.”

“We hope that we can achieve control over the epidemic, which will allow us to enter the phase of gradual weakening of restrictive measures,” she added.

Vuynovich previously noted that in Moscow, Moscow Region and St. Petersburg, a decrease in the growth rate of the incidence of COVID-19 is observed. 

On April 28, Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the situation with the coronavirus, citing experts, said that the peak incidence of COVID-19 in Russia has not yet been passed, noting that the implemented measures managed to slow down the spread of the epidemic.

According to information on April 29, 99 399 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, 10,286 people recovered, 972 died.