Over the past 24 hours, 792 people with coronavirus infection have died in Russia.
The total number of deaths reached 166,442.
18,729 patients recovered after the coronavirus, during the entire epidemic - 5,788,710.
The day before, 22 160 cases of coronavirus were reported in Russia, 14 474 recovered and 769 deaths.
According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, in 22 regions of Russia there is a trend towards a steady decrease in the incidence of coronavirus infection.
Microbiologist Vitaly Zverev, scientific director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with URA.RU, emphasized the importance of achieving population immunity from coronavirus in the world.