“I believe that the main reason for the increase in detection of coronavirus infected people is an increase in the number of PCR tests,” the press service of the Health Ministry quoted Boytsov’s response to a request to comment on the increase in incidence over the past two days.
Also, according to him, "the epidemic process is developing in the regions."
He noted that "the consequence of insufficient discipline of citizens cannot be ruled out."
“From my point of view, quarantine measures should be much tougher, and the degree of responsibility for violation of requirements is higher,” Boytsov said.
At the same time, he said that if we talk "about a more accurate assessment of the epidemic situation, then it is more important to focus on the number of hospitalized per day."
“As far as I know, in Moscow their number varies slightly,” he added.
Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova identified three main criteria on which the beginning of the stage of lifting restrictions in the country, imposed due to the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19, depends.
For a day in Russia, 10 633 cases of infection with the coronavirus infection COVID-19 were recorded in 85 regions. The total number of coronavirus infected in Russia has grown to 134,687.