OREANDA-NEWS In Russia, the incidence of SARS has increased by almost nine percent over the past week. This was announced by Rospotrebnadzor in the Telegram channel.

According to him, about 738 thousand cases of ARVI were recorded in the country, the average Russian incidence rates were exceeded in 49 regions.

"Over 16 percent of the incidence of influenza and SARS is in Moscow, the Moscow region and St. Petersburg. The rest of the country's regions account for about 84 percent," the federal service said.

They added that the incidence of COVID-19 in Russia increased by five percent, the number of cases detected in seven days amounted to more than 24 thousand. The omicron variant is circulating in the country, the situation is controlled by Rospotrebnadzor.