An AstraZeneca executive told Reuters on Friday that the Russian health ministry's ethics commission has denied to permit clinical studies in Russia combining a British shot from AstraZeneca and Oxford University with Russia's Sputnik V vaccination.
The decision, according to Irina Panarina, AstraZeneca's general director for Russia and Eurasia, does...
The federal anti-coronavirus crisis center notified reporters on Saturday that Russia has registered 9,289 instances of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, marking an increase in the overall case count to 5,053,748.
The daily relative rise rate was 0.18 percent, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus center.
3,241 COVID-19 instances have been...
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...
The Russian anti-coronavirus crisis center notified reporters on Friday that country has documented 9,252 instances of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, increasing the total case count to 5,044,459 cases.
The rate of relative daily gain has risen to 0.18 percent, TASS cited the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
In the last 24...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which promotes the vaccine overseas, said on Thursday that Russia has struck a deal to supply the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with enough doses of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for 110 million individuals, Reuters reported.
The vaccine's procurement and distribution are contingent...
On Thursday, Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told the RIA news agency that at least one dosage of the COVID-19 vaccination had been given to about 17 million individuals.
According to the data, roughly 3 million individuals have received the first dosage of one of Russia's vaccinations in the last...
Russia verified 9,039 COVID-19 cases in the last day, bringing the overall number of cases to 5,035,207, according to the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
In relative terms, the COVID-19 instances increased by 0.18 percent.
Over the last day, Moscow has confirmed 3,105 additional COVID-19 instances. In St. Petersburg, there were 836 COVID-19...
According to the RIA news agency, Russia's agricultural safety watchdog has begun vaccinating animals against COVID-19 at veterinary clinics in several Russian regions, according to Reuters.
In March, Russia announced that it had registered the world's first vaccine against coronavirus for animals after trials revealed that it produced antibodies against the...
Although vaccination against the coronavirus infection should not be mandatory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video conference on Wednesday that people should understand the importance of these shots, TASS reports.
Putin said that he believes that requiring obligatory vaccination is counterproductive and unnecessary, adding that the citizens should...
The Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in Slovakia, after the country's government decided to approve the Russian vaccine, along with a vaccination plan that will begin using Sputnik V on June 7, Russian media reported.
With this decision, Slovakia became the second EU state...
