One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus, the authorities said.
The hospital, located in northwestern Moscow, had been designated by the authorities as one of the medical facilities treating coronavirus patients in the Russian capital,...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 4,828 in the past day, taking the total case tally in the country to 937,321, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported.
According to its data, the daily growth rate did not exceed 0.5% for the fourth day in a row.
Some 691...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 15,150, the highest during the entire pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS informed.
According to the crisis center, the relative daily growth over the past 24 hours has increased to...
Russian authorities are investigating the deaths of 14 coronavirus hospital patients after an oxygen equipment breakdown last month, authorities and state media said Wednesday.
Some 40 intensive care patients were moved in early November from a maternity ward converted into a COVID-19 hospital in the city of Kursk south of...
In the past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) recorded over 4.8 million new coronavirus cases and over 85,000 deaths worldwide, according to a weekly update published in Geneva early Wednesday.
From May 10 to 16, the global organization received reports of 4,809,520 new incidents and 85,975 COVID-related deaths from...
The R-Pharm Group of companies, one of Russia’s leading biotech companies, has officially completed registration of Artlegia (olokizumab), a new drug which is initially designed for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis but which could be potentially recommended for the treatment of severe forms of COVID-19, according to the company, The...
Moscow will not impose a curfew or curb alcohol sales during the New Year holiday, despite a rise in coronavirus cases, the mayor of the Russian capital was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Sunday.
Russia, which began vaccinating exposed groups in Moscow, a city of nearly 13...
Russian officials have urged hotels to ban unmarried couples from checking in as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported Saturday.
Hotels would be required to “explain” why unmarried couples end up in the same room, said the state consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, The Moscow...
Researchers of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered an unusual way of accumulation of point mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genome indicating that recently it was evolutionarily adapted to reside in bats, the Institute’s press service reported on Tuesday citing the...
Over 500,000 tests for the presence of the coronavirus have been conducted in Russia over the past 24 hours for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing reported on Friday, TASS reported.
"Over the past 24...
