This was reported by TASS with reference to the agency.

“In the Russian Federation, more than 5.2 million tests for coronavirus have been conducted,” the statement said.

It is clarified that over the past day in the country 234 thousand tests were done.

Earlier, the deputy mayor of the capital for social development, Anastasia Rakova, said that in Moscow they would begin to apply a new test method for coronavirus infection based on venous blood.