The Russian Health Ministry has authorized the use of Sputnik Light, a one-shot coronavirus vaccine said to be even more efficient than some two-dose jabs currently on the market, RT informed.
Sputnik Light is the first component of the widely used Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, its researchers explained. However, the...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia was considering supplying 1 million shots of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to Armenia, Reuters reported citing the RIA new agency.
Russia had already sent 15,000 doses of the vaccine to the former Soviet republic last month, Lavrov was quoted...
Russia’s Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune and Biological Products of the Russian Academy of Sciences has proved the efficacy of its polio vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the Center’s director, Aidar Ishmukhametov, said on Wednesday, as reported by TASS.
"We inoculated <…> volunteers with a...
The makers of Russia’s second approved coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona are studying third doses to boost recipients' immune response, a senior scientist said Wednesday, The Moscow Times reported.
Approved last fall and added to Russia’s mass immunization program last month, EpiVacCorona has come under scrutiny after a group of late-trial study...
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 recorded 7,770 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest number since September 26, 2020, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Tuesday. The total number of cases has reached 4,839,514.
According to data from the crisis center, the coronavirus growth rate stands at 0.16%, TASS reports.
The rate is...
Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs of Brazil support he initiative of Anvisa - Brazil’s sanitary watchdog agency - to continue the dialogue on registration of Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the Foreign Ministry said Monday, as reported by TASS.
"Noting the great relations between Russia and Brazil, including in...
When Slovakia’s prime minister welcomed a military aircraft carrying 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia in March, he posed proudly for photographs on the tarmac in front of crates stuffed with what he expected to be his country’s medical salvation, The New York Times reports.
Slovakia at...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia went up by 8,489 in the past 24 hours to reach 4,831,744, the national anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Monday.
The relative growth rate stands at 0.18%, TASS reported.
The lowest increase rates in the past 24 hours are reported from the...
Russia recorded more than 460,000 excess deaths during the first 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysis of official statistics published by the Rosstat federal statistics agency, The Moscow Times reports.
In its latest report published Friday, Rosstat data showed 38,000 more people died in March 2021 compared...
