Regions are leaders in the number of new cases:
- Saint Petersburg — 1341 (for all time — 856 251),
- Moscow — 1335 (2,036,375),
- Moscow region — 1180 (645,259),
- Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions – 445 each (200 040 and 146 573),
- Krasnodar Territory — 432 (119 993).
Per day in 835 patients died in Russia, which is 2.96% more than yesterday (811). The total number of deaths reached 311,353. 24,037 people recovered during the day, a total of 9,548,076.
Regions-leaders in the number of deaths:
- Moscow – 70 (since the beginning of the pandemic — 36,977);
- Saint Petersburg – 55 (28,204);
- Moscow region – 43 (12,235);
- Krasnoyarsk Territory — 37 (8,726);
- Nizhny Novgorod region — 29 (9,874).
Rospotrebnadzor expects the situation with COVID-19 to worsen after the New Year holidays, including due to the new strain of omicron. Reuters sources in the Russian government also said that the Russian authorities are waiting for a new wave of coronavirus in early 2022, the daily number of infections may exceed 50 thousand people.