She noted that the headquarters daily publishes operational statistics on the mortality of people who have had a positive PCR test for coronavirus, and Rosstat takes into account the information collected after the postmortem autopsy.

"Operational data can be updated both in a smaller and a larger direction," - Interfax quotes Golikova.

According to her, on December 10, official reports will be prepared for ten months and, in addition to general mortality rates, there will be deaths from COVID-19.

Earlier, the operational headquarters said that the death of 569 people with coronavirus was confirmed in the country per day, 42 176 for the entire period.