He said that "889 thousand patients are under the supervision of medical workers, of which 77% are patients receiving assistance on an outpatient basis."
“We have deployed 232 thousand beds,” the minister said.
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.