A day earlier, 18,178 cases of COVID-19 were reported.

During the day, 781 people with coronavirus infection died.

719 patients died the day before.

The total number of deaths is 194,249.

Over the entire period of the epidemic in the country, 6,418,033 patients have been cured of COVID-19.

15,907 people recovered per day, 12,469 the day before.

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. 

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