OREANDA-NEWS.The peak incidence of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in Moscow was reached three days ago, RIA Novosti director of the Institute of Health Economics of the Higher School of Economics Larisa Popovich said.

According to her, you need to focus not on the numbers of daily growth in cases of infection, but on the so-called smoothed curve, the erratic changes in the curvature of which are aligned so that the general trend is clearly visible.

“Because the number of identified, firstly, depends on the number of tests, and secondly, on a variety of random factors and so, in general, about three days ago, as in Moscow, here, according to a smooth curve, the peak was passed , and the number of identified ones began to decrease, although the number of tests did not decrease”, Popovich explained.

On Monday, it became known that Russia bypassed China in the number of officially registered patients with COVID-19. As of April 27, 87,147 cases of COVID-19 were registered in Russia in Russia.