Also, over the past 24 hours, 784 people have died from coronavirus in Russia.
The day before, the number of victims of COVID-19 was 719. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, 149,922 people have died from coronavirus infection.
In total, 5 382 213 patients have been cured of COVID-19 in the country.
During the day, 22,218 people recovered.
The day before, 18,764 patients were discharged after recovery.
On July 19, 24,633 cases of coronavirus were registered in Russia.
The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that the spread of coronavirus infection has become more rapid, and patients with COVID-19 have a number of new symptoms, including intestinal manifestations.
He also stressed that lung damage in coronavirus began to develop about twice as fast.
The former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, at an online briefing on the NSN, urged Russians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.