During the day, 785 people with coronavirus infection died.
The total number of deaths is 160,137.
14,893 people recovered, 5,640,783 patients were cured of COVID-19 during the entire epidemic.
The day before, 22 804 cases were reported, 17 271 recovered and 789 deaths.
Earlier, 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.
Areg Totolyan, director of the Pasteur Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, in an interview with Izvestia, said that people with high levels of interferon alpha, with a high content of lymphocytes in the blood and carriers of some genetic markers have increased protection against coronavirus.