"The increase in the incidence is still in 18 constituent entities of Russia," - said Popova.

She said that "at the same time, thanks to the measures taken and already adopted, the number of regions where there is a decrease in the incidence has increased by almost 3.6 times."

“And so far the stabilization of levels has been noted in 34 constituent entities of Russia,” added the head of Rospotrebnadzor.

According to data as of November 23, 33,996 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia during the day.

In total, 9,400,835 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.