Russia is set to continue its cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) in investigating origins of the novel coronavirus, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement, released in the wake of the latest WHO report on the matter, TASS reported.
"The final report is a result...
More than 4 million new coronavirus cases were registered worldwide in the past week, which is 5% more than during the previous seven-day period, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a weekly bulletin released in Geneva on Wednesday.
Mortality increased by 11%, as over 71,000 deaths were registered in...
Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide crossed 3 million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the latest global resurgence of COVID-19 infections is challenging vaccination efforts across the globe, Reuters reported.
Worldwide COVID-19 deaths are rising once again, especially in Brazil and India. Health officials blame more infectious variants that were...
Russian medics have performed more than 122 million tests for the presence of the novel coronavirus, TASS reports citing a statement of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing reported on Tuesday.
"Over 122.1 million tests for the presence of the coronavirus were conducted in...
Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine ensures quick recovery without severe symptoms in case of contagion, the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology said on Saturday.
The Sputnik V developer commented as news broke out that Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, who had been inoculated with the Russian vaccine earlier, tested...
Russia confirmed 8,817 new COVID-19 cases in the past day, bringing the total case tally to 4,580,894, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS reports.
In relative terms, the growth rate dropped to 0.19%.
The lowest growth rates in the past day were registered in the Chukotka Autonomous Region...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no side effects 10 days after the first injection of a two-component Russian vaccine against the coronavirus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik on Friday.
"No, there are no symptoms", Peskov said.
On March 23, Putin received the first shot of a two-phase Russian coronavirus vaccine, with the...
Russia’s Health Ministry has registered the world’s first specific immunoglobulin against the novel coronavirus based on the recovered patients’ blood plasma, TASS reported citing Rostec.
"The Health Ministry has approved the use of a specific immunoglobulin for the treatment of the novel coronavirus infection. Covid-globulin is the world’s first registered...
