During the day, 485 people with coronavirus infection died in Russia.

The total number of deaths is 73 182.

20,040 people have recovered in the last 24 hours.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 3,300,004 have been cured of COVID-19.

On the eve, 19,032 new cases of coronavirus and 512 deaths associated with COVID-19 were registered in Russia.

24,502 patients were discharged.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense said that the doctors of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M.

Kirov found in the course of a study that treating patients with coronavirus with the plasma of donors vaccinated against COVID-19 is more effective than treating the plasma of those who have been ill.

Also, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that in the capital about 500 thousand people have 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.