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The sanitary situation remains tense in Russia today in connection with the spread of the coronavirus. This was announced on Tuesday the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova at a press briefing at the government House.

"In the Russian Federation today sanitary-epidemiological stop remains very tense. The number of cases of new coronavirus infection are added daily," she said.

While Popov said that the number of new infections has remained stable over the last 10 days.

"From 3 may last ten days the total quantity of registered cases of novel coronavirus infection was statistically about the same. That is, ten days in the Russian Federation we do not see significant growth in the day-to-day when comparing those figures," she said.

About 41% of infected have no symptoms.

"today, individuals with asymptomatic was 41%. That is, of the total number of all identified slightly less than half is people who did not have symptoms at the beginning or at the time of detection and then these symptoms did not develop", – said Popov.

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The number of women and men in Russia among infected is approximately equal.

"has changed the age structure within the total number of cases," she added.

The incidence rate is 158 cases per 100 thousand people.

"the incidence of which is registered in Russian Federation, and it is – 158,3 cases per 100 thousand people will take our country in the fifth decade among the countries that today are informed on the registration of diseases among citizens", – said Popov.

According to the head of the CPS, such an approach to the assessment of "the most justified".

"Because it is impossible to compare the number of cases in a country with a population of over 100 million and in a country whose population exceeds 10 million," she said.