"During the day, 119 deaths were recorded ... Over the entire period in Russia, 15 617 people have died from the coronavirus," the message says.

The day before, 114 patients with coronavirus died in Russia per day.

Earlier, Mikhail Paltsev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Center for Immunology and Molecular Biomedicine at Moscow State University, spoke about three waves of pandemics in an interview with Parlamentskaya Gazeta.