"If any person with signs of a respiratory infection ... start to treat on time with simple, safe, affordable, effective drugs, we would avoid a large number of hospitalizations, we would reduce mortality - I think we could reduce several times," RIA Novosti quotes Matskeplishvili.
According to data as of December 5, 32,602 cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia per day.
In total, 9 801 613 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.