The total number of deaths among patients with coronavirus has reached 5037.

“Over the past day, 182 people have died ... 5,037 people have died over the entire period,” the statement said.

The day before, 162 deaths were reported.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that experts divided all the causes of death, "which are somehow connected with the influence of COVID-19," into groups. 

State Duma deputy, psychiatrist Boris Mendelevich, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the need for extensive testing of the country's population for coronavirus.