The day before, 26,509 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.
According to the latest data from Rospotrebnadzor, more than 84.3 million tests for coronavirus have been carried out in the country, 592,572 people remain under medical supervision as of December 17.
Earlier, Professor of the Department of Virology at Moscow State University, Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with URA.RU, commented on the situation with vaccination.