In Russia, 29,230 cases of coronavirus were detected per day

Also, over the past 24 hours, 22,731 people have recovered from COVID-19 in the country, and 9,858,615 patients have recovered since the start of the pandemic.

In total, 10,803,534 cases of coronavirus have been identified in Russia to date.

As Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said earlier, a new strain of the omicron coronavirus could replace the delta variant of the infection that dominates in Russia.

Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the Omicron strain.