“We have developed such a drug and in the near future we are planning to introduce it into practice, it remains to conduct it through clinical trials, and we plan that, of course, it will be necessary to introduce it,” he said.

According to data as of November 21, 36,970 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.

In total, 9 331 158 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic.

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