This was reported in the operational headquarters for control and monitoring of the situation with coronavirus.
Earlier, 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.