Russia’s Epivaccorona vaccine will provide immunity against COVID-19 for approximately a year, the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology "Vector" informed.
"We expect that it (the vaccine) will provide immunity for a year," Tatyana Nepomnyashchikh, an official with the research center, said during a round table dedicated to COVID-19,...
First deputy director for research at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology under the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, associate member of the Academy of Sciences Alexander Gorelov, believes that there are sufficient reasons for nominate the scientists who have developed vaccines against the novel coronavirus for a Nobel Award,...
The report in the medical journal The Lancet on the safety and efficacy of the Russian vaccine against the novel coronavirus has put Sputnik V among the world's top vaccines, David Livermore, a member of the scientific advisory board on Sputnik V, said in an interview with Sputnik.
On Tuesday,...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 16,688 to 3,934,606 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday.
The coronavirus growth rate stands at 0.43%, TASS reports.
The rate is the lowest in the Tuva region (0.08%), the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, the Jewish autonomous region,...
Allegations that SARS-CoV-2 may have been accidentally leaked from Shi's lab has become one of the popular conspiracy theories, Sputnik reports. Chinese authorities have repeatedly denied the accusations of a possible lab leak.
The laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was accused of leaking the coronavirus, is well-equipped,...
Mexico's Deputy Health Secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell said Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has been authorized by the local regulator for importation and emergency use, Sputnik reports.
"COFEPRIS has just granted a permit for the emergency use of the Sputnik V vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya Epidemiology and Microbiology Center," Lopez-Gatell...
Russia confirmed 16,714 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the total caseload hit 3,917,918, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday, TASS reports.
The average growth rate in new cases reached 0.43%.
The lowest growth rates were recorded over the past day in the Tuva Republic (0.06%), the...
Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine plays an important role in fighting against the pandemic worldwide thanks to its clear advantage, Associate Professor of Virology and Vaccinology at the University of Connecticut Paulo Verardi told TASS.
The expert commented on an article published by The Lancet journal on the Russian vaccine.
"This...
Russia confirmed 16,474 coronavirus cases in the past day and the total case tally hit 3,901,204, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS writes. The average growth rate reached 0.42%.
The lowest growth rates were registered in the past day in the Tuva Republic (0.03%), the Altai Republic,...
Half of Moscow's 12 million residents have had Covid-19, six times the official figures, according to the city's mayor, Daily Mail reports.
In an interview with news outlet Rossiya-1, Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin said the number was based on city hall 'analysis and research'.
It puts the number of those infected...
