They noted that all official statistics on morbidity are published daily by the headquarters.
"It is absolutely wrong to talk about the beginning of the third wave of COVID-19 in Russia at this point in time - the epidemiological situation today remains stable and is under the full control of the headquarters," TASS reports.
Earlier, Bloomberg, citing allegedly unofficial government statistics, wrote that the third wave of COVID-19 had begun in Russia.
The Kremlin, commenting on the publication, stressed that there is no "second accounting" in statistics "and cannot be."