"Over the past day in Russia, 27,250 cases of COVID-19 have been detected in 85 regions, of which 4058 (14.9%) are active in contact persons without clinical manifestations of the disease," the statement said.

On the eve, it became known about 28 776 patients with coronavirus.

Earlier, the infectious disease specialist Yevgeny Timakov said that the coronavirus infection COVID-19 after five to seven years will be transmitted more, but cause fewer complications.

Also, the doctor, immunologist-allergist, Vladimir Bolibok, in an interview with the NSN, suggested that as a measure to combat the coronavirus, not to close the borders, but to change the control system of those entering.