He noted that journalists, like doctors, are on the front line of the fight against coronavirus.

“Unfortunately, there are already losses - recently data were announced: around the world about 60 journalists have died, we have five,” TASS quoted Solovyova.

According to him, there are 200 ill media representatives in the country.

It was previously reported that 10,899 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia per day.