According to the operational headquarters, 5011 cases of COVID-19 infection were detected per day.

Also, 139 patients died in the last 24 hours, 8723 people recovered from the coronavirus.

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 stealth omicron dominates in Russia, and no new variants of COVID-19 have been identified recently.