The day before, 18,554 cases of COVID-19 were reported.

During the day, 719 people with coronavirus infection died.

788 patients died the day before.

The total number of deaths is 193,468.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 6,402,126 patients have been cured of COVID-19.

During the day, 12,469 people recovered, the day before - 14,497.

As the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said earlier, the department does not yet see indications for the abolition of the mask regime in the Russian regions.

The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, urged experts not to predict fluctuations in the incidence rate, but to recommend that Russians get vaccinated.

He stressed that all regions of the country are provided with appropriate drugs.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Sergei Babak in an interview with URA.RU told what happens to the lungs with coronavirus.