Turkey may soon issue a permit for tests of the Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine, Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday.
"We have received an inquiry concerning trials of the vaccine developed in Russia. The related documents have already been checked and a permit will soon be issued," he...
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has proposed creating special zones on its planes where anti-mask passengers will be forced to sit as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, RT reports.
Face coverings are already mandatory for boarding, with this new measure set to be implemented to deal with those who remove their mask after...
Russian scientists made global headlines in August when they unveiled Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved anywhere in the world. But as its roll-out nears, health officials face growing vaccine skepticism, RT reported.
New polling from Moscow's Levada Center this week shows that as many as six...
The number of people infected with coronavirus in Russia per day increased by 11,823, this is at least the number of new cases since October 8, TASS reported.
The total number of infected has reached 4.1 mln, the federal operational headquarters for the fight against the new disease told reporters...
A new, more infectious variant of Covid-19, which was discovered in Britain in mid-December, has reached Russia, the country’s wellbeing and consumer-rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor said, RT writes.
The mutated strain was found in the samples taken from a Russian man who had returned from a trip to the UK before...
Over 211,200 patients remain under medical observation in Russia due to the suspected novel coronavirus infection, the press service of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing reported on Tuesday.
"In the Russian Federation 211,248 people remain under medical observation," the statement said, as reported...
The vaccine tested at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital is safe and well tolerated, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"The available data based on laboratory and instrumental research makes it possible to say that the vaccine is safe and well tolerated," the ministry said.
Eighteen...
Mexico’s authorities could use up to 24 million doses of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez Gatell told a news conference on Monday, TASS reports.
"We have reached preliminary agreements, which might potentially give the Mexican government the opportunity to get the vaccines <...> of Russia’s...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced on Tuesday that Nepal would receive 25 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, enabling 90 percent of the South Asian country's population to have access to the vaccine, Sputnik News reported.
"RDIF ... and one of the leading pharmaceutical distributors...
