The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate 24 billion rubles for payments to doctors working with COVID-19

RIA Novosti informs about this with reference to the relevant orders.

It is noted that more than 16 billion rubles will be allocated for incentive payments for the performance of especially important work for medical and other workers working with coronavirus.

Also, according to the agency, more than 8.6 billion rubles will be allocated for incentive payments for additional workloads for doctors working with COVID-19.

According to the headquarters, in Russia, 18 140 cases of coronavirus were detected per day, this is the maximum since the beginning of the pandemic.

For all the time, 1,618,116 cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the country.

Professor of Virology at the Gamaleya Center Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the NSN, recalled the risks of asymptomatic COVID-19.