The day before, 20,985 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the country.
Earlier, the Minister of Health of Russia, Mikhail Murashko, said that about 5 thousand patients with coronavirus infection in the country are on ventilators.
During the meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the heads of Russian regions not to embellish the situation with the spread of the coronavirus.
Deputy of the State Duma of the III-V convocations, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia Sergei Kolesnikov, in an interview with the FAN, recalled the features of the coronavirus.