Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed authorities to move forward with mass coronavirus inoculation for all Russians starting next week, TASS reports.
"We have already started large-scale vaccination. Last week, Mikhail reported to me that the industry had not only kept up with the promised targets and volumes...
The European Union is set to conduct a scientific review of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 on 19 January, which could be the first step toward gaining emergency use approval in the bloc, Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), told Sputnik on Wednesday,...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 22,934, bringing the total to 3,448,203, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Tuesday, TASS reports.
According to the crisis center, the relative growth of new cases has not surpassed 0.7% for four days.
The...
A Russian lymphoma patient with long-term COVID-19 has acquired 18 mutations of the virus in over four months duration of the disease, according to the preprint of a study published at virological.org, Sputnik reports.
The study, released in early January, is authored by researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science...
Mexico’s authorities could use up to 24 million doses of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V, Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez Gatell told a news conference on Monday, TASS reports.
"We have reached preliminary agreements, which might potentially give the Mexican government the opportunity to get the vaccines <...> of Russia’s...
Brazil will be the next country – after India, China, and South Korea – to produce Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus. The production lines will start operating later this week, RT reported.
“Brazil will start production of Sputnik V on January 15,” the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which...
A new, more infectious variant of Covid-19, which was discovered in Britain in mid-December, has reached Russia, the country’s wellbeing and consumer-rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor said, RT writes.
The mutated strain was found in the samples taken from a Russian man who had returned from a trip to the UK before...
More than 1.5 million people have already been inoculated against the novel coronavirus infections with the Sputnik V vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Sunday, TASS writes.
"More than 1.5 million people have already been vaccine with Sputnik V. The vaccine causes no severe allergy," it said.
Alexander Gintsburg,...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 23,315, bringing the total to 3,425,269, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Monday, TASS writes.
According to the crisis center, the relative growth of new cases has not surpassed 0.7% for three days.
The...
