“The number of new cases recorded per week has increased ... after a downward trend observed since the last peaks in March,” TASS said in a statement.

According to WHO, over the past seven days, 4,182,217 cases of COVID-19 infection and 8,552 deaths from the effects of coronavirus have been recorded.

Earlier, the representative of the World Health Organization in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, spoke about revaccination against COVID-19.