“Moscow has the largest number of laboratories in the country (60).
Among them are 28 private ones, the load of which is uneven throughout the week.
The number of analyzes carried out in all laboratories of the city may differ from day to day by 20-25 thousand.
Accordingly, the percentage of detected cases of coronavirus every day may be different, ”the message says.
It is noted that Monday and Tuesday are the "peak" days for residents to contact medical organizations.
It takes 48 hours to process a sample taken for coronavirus, so by mid-week the operational headquarters receives the results of tests handed over on Monday and Tuesday, and the number of new cases reaches its peak in the middle of the week.
The number of visits to medical institutions and the number of studies for coronavirus from Friday to Sunday is gradually decreasing.
This is also due to the fact that private laboratories do not test employees of organizations on weekends.
The headquarters stressed that illogical trends in the spread of the rate of new cases during the week are also observed in other megacities comparable to Moscow in terms of population.
According to the latest data, 28 145 cases of coronavirus infection COVID-19 were detected in Russia during the day.
The total number of confirmed cases since the start of the epidemic in the country has reached 2,375,546.