A candidate drug for treating the new coronavirus, favipiravir, has produced promising results in early clinical trials in Russia, according to the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which provided 150 million rubles ($2 million) in funding for the project, Reuters reported.
RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev said 60% of the 40 coronavirus...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry will send letters to the Financial Times and New York Times demanding they retract reports claiming the actual death toll from Covid-19 in the country is much higher than the official figures.
The editors-in-chief of the outlets concerned will be given the letters on Thursday by the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to end what he describes as the "non-working period" is drawing sharp criticism from his political opponents, Euronews said.
Putin said on Monday that orders to remain at home would end this week for most of the country’s workforce, despite a record increase in new...
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been hospitalized with coronavirus, he told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday, The Moscow Times reported.
“Yes, I got sick, I’m being treated,” Peskov told Interfax. The Kremlin spokesman is at least the second person in Putin’s administration and the fifth senior...
The total number of deaths registered in Moscow rose sharply in April compared with the same month last year and was also significantly higher than the number officially confirmed as having been caused by the new coronavirus, official data showed, as reported by Reuters.
This raises the possibility that the...
President Vladimir Putin on Monday said stay-at-home orders for most workers in Russia would end this week even as the country registered a record increase in new coronavirus infections, AFP reported.
With more than 220,000 confirmed cases and a steady surge of more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases every day,...
Russia on Tuesday reported 10,899 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total past that of Britain to 232,243, the third-highest total worldwide, Reuters has informed.
The country’s coronavirus response center said the death toll from the virus rose by 107 people to...
Former Governor of the Ryazan Region, member of the Federation Council Oleg Kovalev died at the age of 72, his assistant Andrei Glazunov told TASS.
He did not name the cause of death, but according to sources, as Kommersant reports, Mr. Kovalev died after a long illness.
“Oleg Ivanovich died this night from...
The growth rate of cases of coronavirus infection in recent days suggests that Russia has reached a plateau, the spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia Melita Vujnovic said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg on Sunday, TASS reports.
"Cases of infection continue to appear, but their growth...
Vladimir Putin instructed the Cabinet of Ministers and the working group of the State Council by May 12 to prepare recommendations for the phased removal of restrictions imposed due to coronavirus in the regions, RIA Novosti reports citing the Kremlin website.
The Ministry of Health and Rospotrebnadzor will continue to...
