In total, 6,579,212 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic, the operational headquarters said.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 5,867,890 patients have been cured of COVID-19.

During the day, 19 550 people recovered, the day before - 19 368.

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.