"Over the past 24 hours in Russia, there have been 8,945 confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection COVID-19 in 85 regions, including 2426 (27.1%) actively detected without clinical manifestations," the message says.

The day before, 8481 cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said that clinical studies of the vaccine of the Vector Center for COVID-19 have been completed.

Professor of Virology at the Gamaleya Institute, Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the NSN, said that the more strictly Russians observe anti-epidemic measures, the faster the situation will begin to change for the better.