"The coronavirus pandemic has not gone anywhere, there is no second wave," Gorelova quoted TASS as saying.

He explained that "the epidemic curve, the epidemic process develops as a continuation of the first wave."

Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Muscovites over 65 and people with chronic diseases are advised to stay at home due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus.

The virologist, Professor Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with FAN, assessed the situation with COVID-19.