534 people with coronavirus infection died in Russia per day.

The total number of deaths is 72,185.

Recovered in the last 24 hours, 26,204 people.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 3,255,462 patients were cured of COVID-19.

On the eve, 19 138 new cases of coronavirus and 575 deaths associated with COVID-19 were registered in Russia.

26,775 patients were discharged.

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a video link speech at an economic forum in Davos, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could drag on.

He recalled that recently, new strains of the virus have been discovered, and called for the creation of conditions for joint work of scientists and specialists from different countries to study them.

Professor of Virology at the Gamaleya Center Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with NSN, recalled the risks of asymptomatic disease.