On Tuesday, Russia reported 18,833 new COVID-19 instances, including 1,105 in Moscow, bringing the total number of cases to 6,785,374, Reuters reports.
According to the Russian anti-coronavirus crisis center, 794 additional coronavirus patient fatalities have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 177,614.
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Authorities in central Russia said on Sunday that they are giving food in return for alcohol, after the deaths of 34 individuals who drank illegal booze laced with extremely deadly methanol.
The fatalities are the most recent in Russia as a result of the use of a cheap alcohol replacement,...
Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Wednesday that the country has allocated almost $18 billion to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, TASS reports.
The finance ministry “has reserved 1.4 trillion rubles ($17.8 billion) in all for fighting the spread of the coronavirus and carrying out anti-crisis measures," Mishustin told President Vladimir...
Russian authorities reported on Wednesday 108 more coronavirus-related deaths, the highest daily figure since the beginning of the outbreak in the country, TASS reports.
The death toll stands at 972, the emergency team said in a statement, while 5,841 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, taking...
Russia on Tuesday reported 10,899 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total past that of Britain to 232,243, the third-highest total worldwide, Reuters has informed.
The country’s coronavirus response center said the death toll from the virus rose by 107 people to...
Mass vaccination against the novel coronavirus in Russia may start already in autumn but this process may take as long as nine months, Director of Russia’s Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg said on Monday, TASS informs.
"We hope that mass vaccination will start in early...
The World Health Organization’s Representative to Russia, Melita Vujnovic, said that the organization has no questions about Russia’s COVID-19 mortality rates, TASS informs.
"The WHO by no means has any questions about Russia’s coronavirus-related mortality statistics. WHO Emergencies Program Executive Director Michael Ryan voiced a very general idea. He is...
Russian experts have conducted over 18.1 mln COVID-19 tests already, the press service of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) reported on Thursday, TASS reported.
"As of June 24, 2020, 18,115,830 laboratory tests were carried out for the novel coronavirus on material taken...
The vaccine tested at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital is safe and well tolerated, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"The available data based on laboratory and instrumental research makes it possible to say that the vaccine is safe and well tolerated," the ministry said.
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Researchers of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered an unusual way of accumulation of point mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus genome indicating that recently it was evolutionarily adapted to reside in bats, the Institute’s press service reported on Tuesday citing the...
