This was stated at a meeting with the government.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova proposed to the head of state to introduce a non-working day regime throughout the country from October 30 to November 7 due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus.
As of October 20, 1028 people with coronavirus infection have died in Russia per day.
1015 patients died the day before.
The total number of deaths is 226 353.