681 patients with coronavirus died per day.
26,404 people were discharged, which is 21.6% more than the day before.
Earlier, the Minister of Health of Karelia, Mikhail Okhlopkov, said that planned outpatient and inpatient medical care was suspended in the region due to the situation with the coronavirus.
It was also reported that medical examinations and planned medical care in polyclinics were limited in St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain.
On January 12, the 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.