“Over the past 24 hours in Russia there have been confirmed cases of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 - 8706 in 84 regions, including 2970 (34.1%) without clinical manifestations were detected,” the report said.

A day earlier, 8987 cases of coronavirus were recorded.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko assessed the situation with the spread of COVID-19 in Russia. He noted that, according to the department’s calculations, “21 regions are still calm enough, but the epidemiological process is still ongoing in the rest.”