“There is some activation of the COVID-19 epidemiological process,” the text says.

Rospotrebnadzor reported that in the third week of this year, about 38 thousand new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Russia, which is almost 22% more than the previous week.

Earlier it became known that in Russia over the past day, 970 people with coronavirus infection were hospitalized.

Virologist Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with the FAN, commented on the situation with the spread of the Kraken coronavirus strain.