19,032 cases of coronavirus detected in Russia per day

512 people with coronavirus infection died in Russia per day.

The total number of deaths is 72 697.

Recovered in the last 24 hours, 24,502 people.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 3,279,964 patients have been cured of COVID-19.

On the eve of 19,238 new cases of coronavirus and 534 deaths associated with COVID-19 were registered in Russia.

26,204 patients were discharged.

Earlier, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, expressed the opinion that February - March would be turning points in the fight against coronavirus and the pandemic would begin to recede.

Murashko also recommended earlier hospitalizing elderly patients with coronavirus infection for prophylaxis in order to avoid complications.

Irina Dobretsova, Candidate of Medical Sciences, head of the Center for the Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle, a pediatrician, in an interview with the FAN, spoke about the need to wear masks after being vaccinated against COVID-19.