“109 fatal cases have been confirmed over the past day ... Over the entire period in Russia, 8,111 people have died,” the report said.

The day before, the death of 161 patients with coronavirus was reported.

The representative of the World Health Organization in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, said that the organization has no complaints about Russian estimates of mortality from COVID-19.

Earlier, a virologist, doctor of medical sciences, professor Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the FAN, assessed the need to wear medical masks.