Russia has inoculated one million people against COVID-19 with its Sputnik V vaccine, according to a statement on the Sputnik V Twitter account on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Russia, which has the world’s fourth highest number of COVID-19 cases, started large-scale vaccinations last month.
No new adverse reactions have been reported, RIA...
Russia’s coronavirus spread rate sank on Wednesday to below 0.9 for the second time since the start of the pandemic, according to TASS estimates based on the anti-coronavirus crisis center’s data.
The figure declined from 0.91 to 0.89. Last time this level was recorded on May 19 and did not...
Serbia’s Parliament Speaker Ivica Dacic and Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin have received Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at the Belgrade-based Torlak Institute of Virology, TASS reported.
After the vaccination Vulin and Dacic addressed the media. "The issue of vaccination always gets a political dimension. Currently, some 100 vaccines are undergoing...
Sixty-three years after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the space race by launching Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite, Russia is in the middle of the COVID-19 vaccine race, Freight Waves reported.
Last week, passenger carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas transported the first batch of 300,000 Sputnik V doses...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed cooperation in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, putting an emphasis on possible prospects of joint production of vaccines against the virus, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
"The issues regarding the cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic...
Russia’s coronavirus fatalities grew by 518 in the past 24 hours compared to 482 deaths reported the day before, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reports.
The conditional mortality rate stands at 1.81%, as follows from the data provided by the crisis center.
Another 75 fatalities were recorded...
The Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V was thoroughly tested, within a mechanism that was later picked up by major producers of foreign vaccines, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Sputnik V was the world's first coronavirus vaccine officially registered for...
The Russian government will consider developing and distributing new documents for those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus, in an effort to cut risks associated with international travel, Russia Today reports.
In a series of instructions to officials, published at the end of 2020, President Vladimir Putin ordered policymakers “to...
More than 583,000 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been recorded globally in the past day, pushing a total number of infections to 83.91 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Monday.
According to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 7,900...
The European Union, whose Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted that no member state should begin vaccinations before any other, has only ordered enough of the Pfizer jab to immunize a third of its population, while ignoring available Russian and Chinese vaccines, Sputnik reports.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban...
