"Over the past day in Russia, 6,215 cases of new coronavirus infection have been identified in 83 regions," the message says.

The day before, 6,196 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health of Russia issued a permit to conduct clinical trials of the vaccine developed by the Chumakov Center against coronavirus infection.

Also, State Duma Deputy Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientist-epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with FAN, commented on messages according to which a person who has recovered from COVID-19 can shed the virus for 90 days.