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Russia confirmed 14,185 coronavirus cases over the past day, a new low since October 15, and the total case tally hit 4,071,883, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS informed. In relative terms, the growth rate reached 0.35%. The lowest growth rates were registered in the past day in...
Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus jab has been registered in Kazakhstan, the vaccine developers reported via their official Twitter account, TASS reported. "Kazakhstan becomes the 27th country to authorize Sputnik V vaccine," the statement reads. Currently, Sputnik V has been registered in Russia, Belarus, Argentina, Bolivia, Serbia, Algeria, Palestine, Venezuela, Paraguay, Turkmenistan,...
The Gamaleya Institute behind Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine said it’s working on a technology that will lead to an effective jab against several coronavirus variants and which could also be swiftly updated to tackle new mutations, RT reported. The multiplying variants of Covid-19, which could turn out to be resistant...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 14,861 in the past day to 4,057,698, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Saturday, TASS informed. The coronavirus growth rate is 0.37%, according to the data from the crisis center. Particularly, 1,130 new coronavirus cases were registered in St. Petersburg in the past 24 hours, 884...
Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has been authorized in Montenegro and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, thus bringing the total number of countries where it is authorized to 26, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said Friday, as reported by Sputnik News. "The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign...
Russia's Gamaleya research institute is completing the second phase of clinical trials of the Sputnik Light vaccine against the coronavirus, institute chief Alexander Gintsburg said on Friday, Sputnik News reports. Sputnik Light is a single-shot spin-off of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. "A month passed since it was first mentioned,...
The carrot and stick policy is not acceptable in Russia to stimulate people to get COVID-19 jabs, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday when asked if Moscow is considering specific measures to ramp up the pace of vaccination in the country, TASS reports. "There can be no stick or...
Two Russian regions’ move to lift their face mask mandates is premature, a leading health expert told The Moscow Times on Thursday. Officials in the republic of Chechnya and the republic of Udmurtia on Wednesday announced that residents would no longer be required to wear face masks in public, becoming...
While BP was unveiling its strategy to reinvent itself from an international oil company to an integrated energy company in London last year, thousands of miles away Russian giant Rosneft—in which the UK supermajor holds 20 percent—was preparing to launch an ambitious multi-billion-dollar onshore oil project in Russia’s Arctic,...
Russia confirmed 15,038 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the total case tally reached 4,027,748, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday, TASS reported. In relative terms, the growth rate reached 0.37%. The lowest growth rates in the past day were registered in the Tuva Republic, the...