Over the past 24 hours, 799 people with coronavirus infection have died in Russia.

The total number of deaths reached 167,241.

20,067 patients recovered after the coronavirus, during the entire epidemic - 5,808,777.

The day before, 21,378 cases of coronavirus were reported in Russia, 18,729 recovered and 792 deaths.

Earlier, the director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with the NSN, told how herd immunity is formed.