2923 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Russia per day

Also, in a total of 24 hours, 11,905 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected in the country, the day before - 11,432.

During the day, 240 people with coronavirus infection died in Russia, 19,006 patients recovered.

Earlier, the head of the scientific group for the development of new diagnostic methods based on sequencing technologies of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, Kamil Khafizov, said that the share of stealth omicron exceeded 90% of all detected cases of coronavirus in Russia.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the situation with the spread of "stealth omicron".