Sobyanin estimated the real number of coronavirus in Moscow in 2% - this is more than 250 thousand people
Based on the results of screening studies of various groups of the population, the real number of cases is about 2% of the total number of residents of Moscow, the metropolitan mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in his blog . According to him, this is "the minimum significance among world cities, affected by pandemia." The mayor did not call the exact numbers. According to Rosstat , the number of permanent population of Moscow as of January 1, 2020 was 12,678,079 people.