Also, in a total of 24 hours, 11,754 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in the country, the day before - 10,910.

During the day, 267 people with coronavirus infection died in Russia, 28,135 patients recovered.

Earlier, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Onishchenko commented on the situation with the spread of the stealth omicron coronavirus strain.

In a conversation with the FAN, he expressed the opinion that, in general, the accumulated population immunity against Omicron allows us to hope that its subspecies will not cause a serious surge in the incidence in Russia.