Since the beginning of the epidemic, 9,031,851 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Russia.

During the day, 33 802 patients with coronavirus recovered, for the entire time 7 754 764 people were discharged after recovery.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said at a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin that in order to achieve herd immunity at the level of 80%, it is necessary to vaccinate about 22 million people against coronavirus and revaccinate about 9 million more.

Virologist Yevgeny Timakov, in an interview with FAN, gave a forecast on the situation with COVID-19 before the New Year holidays.