During the day, 788 people with coronavirus infection died.
The total number of deaths is 160,925.
18,963 patients recovered, during the entire period of the COVID-19 epidemic - 5,659,746.
The day before, 23 508 cases were reported, 14 893 recovered and 785 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, high levels of lymphocytes in the blood, as well as carriers of some genetic markers, have increased protection against coronavirus.