The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) does not intend to scale down its testing of athletes despite the worsening epidemiological situation in the country, RUSADA told TASS.
"We are trying to maintain the testing scale and prevent suspension of it as it was in spring when we could not collect samples between...
Russia’s veteran international striker Pavel Pogrebnyak has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, his wife, and lifestyle guru Maria Shatalova said Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
Pogrebnyak’s current team, FC Ural Yekaterinburg, had said that the 36-year-old had mild Covid-19 symptoms and was “feeling good” when it announced Friday that he fell ill.
Shatalova said earlier...
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...
A total of 19,238 new COVID-19 cases were registered in Russia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total case count to 3,813,048, the coronavirus prevention anti-crisis center announced Friday.
The case growth rate in the past 24 hours was 0.51%, the statistics say, TASS reports.
In particular, 2,284 cases were...
The total number of cases of coronavirus infections in Russia crossed the 3 million mark for the first time on Saturday after officials recorded 29,258 new cases in the preceding 24 hours and 567 deaths.
This brought the total number of cases of coronavirus in Russia since the start of...
No poisons have been found in Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s system on the outcomes of clinical tests, thus doctors do not think he was poisoned, Anatoly Kalinichenko, deputy chief physician of Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, told reporters on Friday, TASS reported.
Navalny was hospitalized on Thursday after he...
Documents for registration of the Sputnik Light coronavirus vaccine lodged with the Russian Health Ministry, according to the website of the state register of medicines, TASS reported.
Alexei Kuznetsov, an aide to the Russian health minister, told journalists on Monday, the ministry had received the Sputnik Light dossier. "The ministry’s...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Sheremetyevo International Airport announce the launch of express-testing for coronavirus, using EMG systems, for arriving and departing passengers.
It is a pilot project for Russia’s transport industry. The express service for COVID-19 diagnostics providing the most reliable result in...
Russia opposes investigations into the World Health Organization (WHO) and China in connection with their response to the deadly coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s senate speaker Valentina Matviyenko told Interfax on Monday.
Her remarks come amid the United States’ increasingly bitter spat with China and accusations that the WHO failed to contain the outbreak...
A YouGov survey with 9,417 respondents from 9 countries revealed that 54% of interviewees consider Russia the most trusted vaccine producer, while Russia's Sputnik V is the most recognizable vaccine against the coronavirus with 74 % of those surveyed having heard of it, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)...
