“Of course, the epidemic is increasing and the number of cases is more than it was, but I must tell you that the number of tests has increased dramatically.
More such research is being done than in the spring.
It is possible that the growth that we see, to some extent - of course, without a doubt there is growth, 17 thousand, and there we had 12 thousand - it also depends on what we now better diagnose and investigate ”, - quoted by RIA Novosti Altstein.
Earlier it was reported that the number of newly detected cases of coronavirus in Russia exceeded 17 thousand (17 340), for the entire time there were 1 480 646 cases in the country.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that the epidemiological situation with coronavirus in the world has been deteriorating over the past few weeks.