He noted that "the outcome is largely ... associated with concomitant pathologies, and mainly obesity."

“How the risk of severe course increased - almost more than sevenfold in obese patients and almost ninefold in the risk of death.

This, of course, allowed us to build an individual strategy for each specific patient, ”Shlyakhto quotes TASS.

Earlier it was reported that 13,754 new cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia during the day.

The total number of detected cases for the entire period of the epidemic in the country reached 1,354,163.

Professor of the Department of Virology at the Belozersky Institute of Moscow State University, Alexei Agranovsky, in an interview with URA.RU, assessed the immunity of those vaccinated against COVID-19.