In Russia, 26,689 cases of coronavirus were detected per day

"Over the past day in Russia, 26,689 cases of COVID-19 have been detected in 85 regions, of which 5,181 (19.4%) are active in contact persons without clinical manifestations of the disease," the message says.

The day before, 27,328 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.

Earlier, Deputy Minister of Health of Russia Oleg Gridnev said that the coronavirus pandemic could decline in mid-2021.

The virologist Professor Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the FAN, assessed the situation with the coronavirus.