"The number of very serious patients is increasing, in intensive care, on mechanical ventilation, even mortality begins to rise again," RIA Novosti quotes Sobyanin.

As the head of the city noted, this suggests that "a pandemic is coming, the dynamics does not bode well."

According to the latest data, 5,530 patients with confirmed coronavirus have died in Moscow.

According to the Moscow authorities, next week will be decisive in assessing the situation with COVID-19.