Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia was considering supplying 1 million shots of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to Armenia, Reuters reported citing the RIA new agency.
Russia had already sent 15,000 doses of the vaccine to the former Soviet republic last month, Lavrov was quoted...
New medicines from the category of monoclonal virus-neutralizing antibodies have started to be utilized in Moscow hospitals; such treatments are used all over the globe to treat patients at an early point of coronavirus development, according to the Moscow headquarters, quoting deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova.
First and foremost, such treatment...
The European Medicines Agency has started a rolling review of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, bne IntelliNews reports, citing the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
After being widely derided last year after the Russian authorities rushed through its registration before trials were complete, sentiment towards Russia’s first vaccine has improved...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is considering the possibility of investing in several more Favipiravir-based drugs, Chief Executive Officer Kirill Dmitriev said on Thursday, TASS reported.
"Two more companies are finalizing clinical trials of Favipiravir-based drugs in Russia — our portfolio company R-Pharm and Promomed company, which will virtually...
Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs of Brazil support he initiative of Anvisa - Brazil’s sanitary watchdog agency - to continue the dialogue on registration of Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the Foreign Ministry said Monday, as reported by TASS.
"Noting the great relations between Russia and Brazil, including in...
Healthcare workers as well those in the risk groups will be the first to be inoculated against the coronavirus infection simultaneously with the third post-registration phase of the vaccine trials, the press service of Russia’s Healthcare Ministry told reporters on Monday.
"The vaccine developed by the Gamaleya National Research Institute...
A Brazilian pharmaceutical company aims to request authorization for emergency use of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in the second half of February, its head told Valor Econômico on Thursday, Reuters reports.
Fernando de Castro Marques, chief executive of União Química Farmacêutica Nacional, told the newspaper that the first doses...
Over the course of 2020, life expectancy for those living in Russia fell by more than two years, with the coronavirus death toll setting back ambitious government plans to consistently raise citizens’ average life spans, RT reported.
Last week, a draft government report on demographics was published by the May...
Russians must be vaccinated immediately to avoid a disastrous COVID-19 scenario, according to Kirill Dmitriev, RDIF CEO.
In contrast to other nations, Russia has produced safe vaccines that are readily available, according to the RDIF CEO. Sputnik V's efficacy and safety, he claims, have been validated by data from medical...
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told Russian news agency TASS during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that limitations on the Coronavirus might be lifted if 60% of the population gets vaccinated.
Answering whether masks will still be obligatory once 60% of the population is immunized, the Minister says that...
