Russia reported 5,482 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, pushing its national tally to 839,981, the world’s fourth largest caseload, Reuters reported.
Officials said 161 people had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 13,963.
Russia is working on a program to offer people abroad the chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Russia with its Sputnik V shot from July, the vaccine’s official Twitter account has said.
Authorities have so far been skeptical about launching a program to allow foreigners to travel to Russia...
According to the vaccine's makers, Brazil has allowed Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for import and emergency use in many states, overturning an April decision to restrict importation of the vaccine, The Moscow Times reports.
The South American nation, which has a population of over 210 million people, has become the...
Russia has been getting requests for its coronavirus vaccine from Africa and will address them, but has to attend to its own people first, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Ozerov, who serves as the head of the secretariat for the Russian-African partnership forum, told Sputnik.
"Of course, we received such requests ;...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel conceded the increasingly obvious solution to Europe’s coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine shortage crisis: Germany may buy the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine if no alternative sources of vaccines are found soon, bne IntelliNews reports.
"As far as the Russian vaccine is concerned, I share the opinion that we...