“I would like to report on the current situation with the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
Unfortunately, it remains tense, ”Golikova said.
She said that "according to the results of the last week, 174.2 thousand cases of the disease were registered, the incidence rate per 100 thousand of the population was 118.7."
“Although this is practically the level of last week, nevertheless, in most regions, the situation, as I said, remains tense,” the Deputy Prime Minister noted.
According to data as of July 21, 23 704 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.
In total, 6,030,240 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic.
The former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, at an online briefing on the NSN, urged Russians to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.