"Over the past day in Russia, confirmed cases of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) - 26,683 in 85 regions, including 5901 (22.1%) actively detected without clinical manifestations," the message says.

For the entire time, 2,269,316 cases were registered in the country. 

During the day in Russia, 459 deaths were confirmed after COVID-19, for the entire time - 39,527.

The number of discharged patients in Russia who were previously diagnosed with coronavirus increased by 21,987 per day. A total of 1,761,457 patients have already recovered.

The day before, it was reported that 27,100 cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia per day.

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.