“About 600-650 thousand people,” TASS quotes Murashko's answer.

The minister noted that the health care system is working "with a very heavy load" and urged the population to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

"This is the most important way, and not to check how much the system can still (withstand -

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), This is the wrong approach," the head of the Ministry of Health concluded.

During the day in Russia, a new maximum deaths of patients with coronavirus were set.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, October 20, will discuss with the government the situation with the coronavirus in the country.