This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the country's Ministry of Health.

"As of September 17, the country had 1,302 new cases of COVID-19 ... a total of 60,818 confirmed cases," the department said.

Earlier, a virologist, Chief Researcher of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Doctor of Medical Sciences Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, commented on the situation with COVID-19 in the world.