Sunday, May 19, 2024
Russia reported 4,870 new coronavirus cases on Friday, pushing its confirmed national tally to 946,976, the fourth largest in the world, Reuters reported. Authorities said 90 people had died over the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 16,189.
Mexico said on Thursday that it plans to take part in stage 3 trials of the Russian coronavirus vaccine in October, part of the nation’s efforts to secure supplies of possible future COVID-19 vaccines, Reuters reported. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that if the Mexican regulator permits it, the Russian...
Russian opera star Anna Netrebko said on Thursday she had contracted coronavirus and was in hospital with pneumonia after performing at the Bolshoi Theater's post-lockdown opening show, The Moscow Times reported. The singer's illness comes as two top Russian theater have suffered outbreaks of the virus shortly after reopening, raising...
The global death toll caused by the novel coronavirus reached the mark of 1,000,555 people on Monday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, which relies on the data of international organizations, federal and local authorities, TASS reported. The U.S.-based research university reports that as of today the global...
Russia is expected to boost its monthly coronavirus vaccine production to 1.5 million doses in December, 3-3.5 million doses in January and up to 15 million doses in the spring, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said on Wednesday, as reported by Sputnik. "We plan to produce 800,000 doses in...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is self-isolating after coming into contact with a person infected with COVID-19, Reuters reported citing the RIA news agency. Lavrov’s previously planned visits and meetings are being postponed.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 20,582, a record high nationwide since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of the infections has reached 1,733,440, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS reported. According to the crisis...
Contracting the novel coronavirus is possible between the first and second injections of the anti-coronavirus vaccine as immunity develops on the 21st day after the first jab on average, becoming stable three weeks after the second shot, the director of the Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 26,338 to 2,295,654 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Monday, TASS reported. The country reported 26,683 cases on Sunday. In particular, 6,511 new cases were identified in Moscow in the past day, 3,691 in St. Petersburg, 1,064...
The preliminary data obtained in the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine trials show that the efficiency of the jab stands at 69.3% after the first component is administered and 96.2% after the second, member of the independent monitoring committee examining the results of the vaccine’s clinical trials Ramil Khabriyev...