The day before, 216 patients with coronavirus died in Russia.

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

The Moscow Department of Health, in turn, reported that the mortality rate from coronavirus infection in the capital in April ranges from 1.4% to 2.8%, depending on the calculation method.

Virologist Alexander Chepurnov in an interview with Nation News spoke about measures that, he said, help reduce the number of patients with coronavirus.