“The epidemic situation allows us to transfer city hospitals to a regular mode.

Over the week, the number of new cases of the disease has decreased by 22%, "Beglov said following a meeting of the Operational Headquarters to prevent the import and spread of a new coronavirus infection, which was held under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Tatyana Golikova.

He said that “the spread of infection is 0.85 with the standard“ one ”.

“Therefore, we can return some of the city hospitals involved in the treatment of patients with covid to a planned schedule,” Beglov added.

According to data as of August 27, 19,509 cases of coronavirus were registered in Russia during the day.

In total, 6,844,049 cases of infection were detected in the country during the pandemic. 

Director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg, in an interview with NSN, told how collective immunity to COVID-19 is formed.