Saturday, June 6, 2026
Nearly two out of three Russians believe the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is a bioweapon created by humans, a survey by the independent Levada Center polling agency said Monday. According to Levada’s results, 64% of Russian respondents said Covid-19 was artificially created as a new form of biological weapon....
Czech Republic counts on supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the near future. The country’s President Milos Zeman told the local CNN Prima on Saturday that he had sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with a request to deliver the vaccine to the...
A trial batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus has been manufactured in Belarus, Belarusian Health Minister Dmitry Pinevich told journalists on Friday, TASS reported. "Today is a landmark moment for all of us. We welcome you during an official launch of the localization of the Sputnik...
The coronavirus infection may become a seasonal disease in a year or two, Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology Natalya Pshenichnaya told TASS. "Perhaps, it will happen in the next one to two years. COVID-19 has already started to show the...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 11,534 in the past 24 hours, the total number of infected people has reached 4,234,720, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday, TASS writes. According to the crisis center, the growth rate in relative terms stands at 0.27%. The lowest daily growth rates were registered...
Russia is ready for cooperation with Spain in the area of combating the novel coronavirus infection, including vaccine production, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday after a meeting of the Russian-Spanish intergovernmental trade-and-economic operation commission, TASS reported. "Russia is ready to cooperate with Spanish partners to combat...
Combating the coronavirus pandemic and possible supplies of the Russian Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine to Austria were among the topics discussed over the phone by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the Kremlin press service said on Friday as reported by TASS. "The sides discussed in detail...
Russia is ready to cooperate on creation and implementation of a global COVID-19 immunization plan as proposed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday, Sputnik News reports. According to the spokesperson, during the UN Security Council meeting on February 17, the secretary...
Almost 600,000 people in the Russian capital have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, the city has a sufficient number of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, the press service of Moscow’s Healthcare Department has reported, TASS reports. "Mass vaccination of the population against COVID-19 is gaining momentum. In total, almost...
Russia has documented 11,086 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest daily case count since October 5. The total number of coronavirus cases in Russia has reached 4,223,186, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday. The daily increase rate has reached 0.26%, TASS reports. In the past...