"Of the 177 passengers, 28 have already received the status of patients, they are hospitalized, some on the basis of clinical manifestations, some on the basis of PCR results," the head of Rospotrebnadzor quotes Interfax.
According to Popova, only two have so far been diagnosed with the omicron coronavirus strain.
In total, the observators contain 177 people who arrived from countries at risk of the spread of the new strain.
As of December 9, 30 209 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in Russia per day.
In total, 9,925,806 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country since the beginning of the epidemic.