Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Russia has inoculated one million people against COVID-19 with its Sputnik V vaccine, according to a statement on the Sputnik V Twitter account on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Russia, which has the world’s fourth highest number of COVID-19 cases, started large-scale vaccinations last month. No new adverse reactions have been reported, RIA...
Russia’s COVID-19 cases rose by 23,586 in the past day to 3,568,209, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday. The average growth rate did not exceed 0.7% in the past two days, TASS reports. The lowest growth rates in the past day were recorded in the Tuva Republic, the...
Russia confirmed 18,359 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the overall caseload in the country reached 3,850,439, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS informed. The average coronavirus growth rate reached 0.48%. The lowest growth rates in the past day were registered in the Tuva Republic...
Russia's Gamaleya research institute is completing the second phase of clinical trials of the Sputnik Light vaccine against the coronavirus, institute chief Alexander Gintsburg said on Friday, Sputnik News reports. Sputnik Light is a single-shot spin-off of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. "A month passed since it was first mentioned,...
Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 11,749 in the past day reaching 4,200,902, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported. For a second day in the row fewer than 12,000 daily coronavirus cases were recorded. In relative terms, the growth rate stood at 0.3%. The lowest growth rates in...
Russia’s central bank said on Wednesday it had ordered brokers to block the accounts of more than 60 private investors it suspected of coordinating in a Telegram channel to try to raise the share price of an electric utilities firm, Reuters reports. In a development reminiscent of lurches in U.S....
Antigua and Barbuda's health ministry has registered Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Friday, Sputnik News reports. "RDIF ...  announces that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus has been approved by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment of...
Armenia has reached a deal for 1 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency cited Armenian authorities as saying on Wednesday. The Armenian health ministry approved the vaccine for domestic use on Feb. 1, Reuters reports.
More than 93,000 people died of COVID-19 in the past week, which is 6% more than during the previous seven-day period, the World Health Organization said in its COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update published in Geneva early on Wednesday, TASS reported. "For the second successive week, the number of COVID-19 cases...
Russia has recorded 404 coronavirus deaths in the previous 24 hours, up from 402 the day before. The total number of people dead has now reached 120,406. Some 2.39 percent of coronavirus patients in Russia have died, according to TASS, citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center. There have been 56 deaths in...