"We see how actively our hospitals are being loaded, the situation has stabilized somewhat, but the number of (hospitalized) patients is still slowly but surely approaching a thousand people a day, among them there are many seriously ill patients," RIA Novosti quoted Sobyanin as saying.

He noted that it is not yet planned to transfer hospitals providing routine care to work with patients with coronavirus in Moscow.

On the eve it became known that over the past 24 hours in Moscow, 2,884 people were infected with COVID-19.

This was announced by the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus.

This is the maximum since May 23, when 3190 cases were detected in the capital.