During the day, 789 people with coronavirus infection died.
The total number of deaths is 159 352.
17,271 people recovered, during the entire epidemic, 5,625,890 patients were cured of COVID-19.
The day before, 23 807 cases were reported.
Denis Protsenko, candidate of medical sciences, chief physician of the City Clinical Hospital No. 40 in Kommunarka, said that vaccination is the key to ending the pandemic.
Director of the Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamaleya Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with the NSN, told how herd immunity is formed.