This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic.

"Today (October 20 - 

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), another 656 new cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Moldova ... The total number of people diagnosed with coronavirus has reached 67,958," the ministry said.

It is clarified that a total of 49,083 people have been cured of coronavirus infection in the country, 1,617 patients with COVID-19 have died.

Earlier, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova, Pavel Voicu, announced his repeated illness with coronavirus infection COVID-19.

In July, the FAN reported that the head of the Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine of the I.M. Sechenov, the chief freelance epidemiologist of the Russian Ministry of Health Nikolai Briko called the difficult situation with COVID-19 in the world.