It is noted that 2020 will go down in history as the year of pandemia of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19. The data on the number of confirmed cases of the disease and the number of deaths in the world are giv-en. Measures to counter the spread of COVID-19 in the Russian Federation are presented. The characteristics of the disease are given: clinical symptoms, clinical variants and manifestations, forms of the disease, etc. The content is con-sidered of the measures that are necessary to prevent the spread of a new coronavirus infection on the territory of the Russian Federation. © ARCDM Zashchita.