She noted that "the situation is still ambiguously stable."

“This is how we will spend these holidays, so we will continue to live until the end of winter, this is absolutely certain,” TASS quoted Popova.

She also advised not to organize large feasts on New Year's holidays, as the risk of coronavirus disease increases during these holidays.

According to the data of the headquarters as of December 30, over the past day, the number of cases of coronavirus in Russia increased by 26,513 to 3,131,550.

Sergei Kolesnikov, deputy of the State Duma of the III-V convocations, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of Russia, in an interview with the FAN, recalled the peculiarities of the coronavirus.