"Moscow - 2284", - said in a message in Telegram.

It is specified that in St. Petersburg over the past 24 hours, 2,160 people with coronavirus were identified, in the Moscow region - 1,082.

In total, 18 359 cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia per day.

Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that in the capital about 500 thousand people signed up for vaccination against coronavirus infection, more than 300 thousand have already been vaccinated.

Professor of Virology at the Gamaleya Center Anatoly Altstein, in an interview with the NSN, recalled the risks of asymptomatic COVID-19.