The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Russia increased by 339 in the last 24 hours, up from 355 the day before, bringing the total to 121,501.
The mortality rate is estimated to be 2.4 percent, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
In the last 24 hours, Russia has recorded 6,715...
Russia will start giving its first drug approved to treat COVID-19 to patients next week, its state financial backer told Reuters, a move it hopes will ease strains on the health system and speed a return to normal economic life.
Russian hospitals can begin giving the antiviral drug, which is...
Russia recorded 15,982 new coronavirus cases in the past day, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Monday. The previous high - 15,150 - was recorded on October 16, Reuters reported.
According to the crisis center, the case tally has reached 1,415,316.
Russia reported 4,829 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, bringing its nationwide tally to 980,405, the fourth largest caseload in the world, Reuters reported.
Russia’s coronavirus taskforce said 110 people had died over the last 24 hours, pushing its official death toll to 16,914.
President Vladimir Putin has urged the government to improve abortion prevention strategies in an effort to reduce the number of terminated pregnancies and offset Russia's population decline, The Moscow Times reported.
Putin’s order was made public days after Poland’s top court deemed abortions performed in cases of fetal defects to...
The number of new coronavirus infections in Russia will reach a plateau at the beginning of October before a small decline, the RIA news agency cited a scientific adviser to consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying on Monday.
According to Reuters, the number of COVID-19 infections has been steadily rising...
Kremlin stands in support of stark measures and guidelines introduced by Sergey Sobyanin, the Mayor of Moscow, amid the more complicated pandemic situation, TASS cited Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin Spokesman.
Dmitry Peskov stated that the support comes due to the difficult and worsened situation with Covid-19.
Moscow Mayor wrote on his...
The Sputnik V vaccine is efficient against new COVID strains, a research published in the Vaccines leading international magazine by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology has shown, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Monday.
The research indicates that Sputnik V retains its antimicrobial capabilities against the new...
Universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg will switch students to remote learning for two months to prevent the spread of coronavirus during the pandemic's record-setting second wave, Science and Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov said Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
“I signed an order yesterday switching the universities under the...
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...
