"In Moscow, over the past day, 18 patients died, all of them were diagnosed with pneumonia and received a positive test result for coronavirus infection," the statement said.
The day before, 17 patients with coronavirus infection died in Moscow.
State Duma Deputy, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientist-epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with the FAN, assessed the situation with those who had recovered from COVID-19.