“The number of hospitalizations per day amounted to 20,178 people and decreased by 0.03% compared to the previous day,” the report says.

Earlier, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Health reported that the provision of planned medical care to children, patients with oncological and oncohematological diseases, as well as those in need of hemodialysis, would not be suspended, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Chief prophylactologist of the Ural Federal District, scientific director of the Society of Preventive Medicine Specialists, Doctor of Medical Sciences Sergey Tokarev, in an interview with URA.RU, spoke about the symptoms of the Omicron coronavirus strain.