She said that to date, "if you count from the beginning of April, the rate of daily growth in detecting new cases in Russia has decreased by 11.8 times."

“For several days now, we have recorded a daily increase of 2.3%,” Golikova said.

She also noted that "the infection spread rate in Russia is less than one."

It was previously reported that in Russia, 8572 coronavirus cases were confirmed within 24 hours. The total number of COVID-19 cases detected during the pandemic increased to 387,623.

On the eve of 8371 cases were identified.