“The epidemic has not receded yet. Unfortunately, the number of daily infections and losses is too high. Therefore, I ask you to continue to keep issues of health care support, the whole range of anti-epidemic measures under special control, and pay increased attention to them during the holidays,” Putin said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
According to the operational headquarters on December 24, for the last day in In Russia, coronavirus was detected in 24,703 people. This indicator fell below 25,000 for the first time since October 1 and became the lowest since the same date. The total number of infected citizens during the pandemic reached 10,343,353.
998 patients with COVID-19 died within 24 hours. Before that, since October 18, the daily value was above 1000. In general, 302,269 Russians died from coronavirus. At the moment, 860,705 citizens are sick with COVID-19. Yesterday, the virus was detected in 25,667 people, 1002 patients died.