“The situation remains difficult, the number of active patients continues to increase, now there are more than 44 thousand,” RIA Novosti quotes Beglova.

According to data as of November 1, 40 402 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.

In total, 8,554,192 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic, the operational headquarters said.

On October 28, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, on the air of the TV channel "360" said that 80% of the citizens of the region hospitalized with coronavirus infection did not have an appropriate vaccination.