More than 23% of Russians think the coronavirus threat is not real and the epidemic is made up, according to a survey by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, published on Thursday, Russia Today reported.
Conducted in May, the survey of 30,000 Russians found that 23.2% believe Covid-19 is a work...
Russian officials have urged hotels to ban unmarried couples from checking in as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported Saturday.
Hotels would be required to “explain” why unmarried couples end up in the same room, said the state consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, The Moscow...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.
"No," he said, answering a corresponding question. "It has not been certified yet. It wouldn’t be good for a head of...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 5,394 in the past 24 hours, pushing the total number of the infected to 856,264, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Monday, TASS writes.
According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate is 0.6%.
The number of coronavirus recoveries over the past 24 hours...
WHO officials said this month the proportion of younger people among those infected had risen globally, putting at risk vulnerable sectors of the population worldwide, including the elderly and sick people in densely populated areas with weak health services, Reuters reported.
“The epidemic is changing,” WHO Western Pacific regional director,...
The first pilot batch of the Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus for risk groups has been shipped to the regions of Russia, a spokesperson at the Healthcare Ministry told reporters, TASS reported.
"The first batch of Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine, developed by the the Gamaleya National Research Center...
Russia on Thursday reported 6,595 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, its highest daily increase since July 12.
According to Reuters, authorities said 149 more people had died, bringing the official death toll to 19,948.
The new figures pushed Russia’s national tally of cases to 1,128,836, the fourth-largest in...
The number of COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours increased by 12,126, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS reported.
The previous high of 11,656 daily cases was recorded on May 11.
The relative growth in the infections...
