“By joint efforts, we are managing to contain the spread, and all the daily registration numbers (new cases of the disease. -

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) are decreasing,” TASS quotes her.

Popova also said that the detection of 12 thousand cases per day is a large number.

She added that in addition to this, there are asymptomatic cases of coronavirus disease.

“This suggests that the possibility of meeting the virus in the population among people is quite high today,” she said.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke about the situation with coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the country.