"Over the past 24 hours, 99 deaths have been confirmed ... Over the entire period, 20,324 people have died across Russia," the message says.
The day before, 169 patients with COVID-19 died in Russia.
Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called on residents of the capital, including people over 65 and citizens with chronic diseases, to comply with the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor.
Senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with the NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of the coronavirus.