Over the past 24 hours in Russia, 20,713 patients have recovered from the coronavirus, during the entire epidemic - 5,939,037.

During the day, 799 people with confirmed coronavirus died.

The total number of deaths is 172,909.

The day before, 20,958 cases of coronavirus were reported in Russia and 18,407 recovered and 805 deaths.

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