Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Russia has reached the coronavirus plateau, Head of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing Anna Popova said during Friday’s online meeting on the coronavirus situation, which involved President Vladimir Putin, TASS reported. "Researchers and medical practitioners are clear that, according to the monitoring data...
Russia may start delivering its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to the African Union in May, with the bulk of supplies set to start in June, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) told Sputnik on Friday. "Partial deliveries of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union may...
Four people were killed and three more wounded as a result of shooting on a passenger bus in the town of Bor in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a source in the law enforcement told TASS. "At present it is known that there were seven people affected as a result of...
Russia is negotiating supply of its artificial lung ventilators with 16 countries, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview with TASS, adding that hundreds of ventilators will be exported. "I doubt export volumes will reach 500-600 ventilators as purchased by Uzbekistan and Italy during the pandemic peak,...
The number of people in Moscow who have recovered from COVID-19 grew by 2,066 in the past 24 hours reaching 159,718, Deputy Mayor for Social Development Issues Anastasia Rakova said on Tuesday, TASS reported. "The number of recoveries in Moscow continues to grow. Another 2,066 patients recovered after treatment in...
The number of deaths due to coronavirus infection in Russia in the past seven days turned out to be the maximum since the beginning of the epidemic, based on the statistics of the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center. The number of detected cases of infection in the country has increased by...
Face masks will remain mandatory in Moscow until a mass vaccination campaign against the coronavirus begins, which may happen in October, or even later, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with TASS. "How long we will have to wear masks… it will largely depend on the development of...
Russian medical workers have conducted more than 108 million coronavirus tests, TASS reports, citing Russia's Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing. "More than 108.3 million coronavirus tests have been conducted in the Russian Federation," its press service said. As many as 374,000 tests were conducted...
Russia has taken measures to prevent “exponential growth” of the coronavirus epidemic and hopes to start clinical trials of a vaccine within weeks, its health minister said on Monday, Reuters reported. “We are already developing drugs to treat people throughout all stages of the disease and those are already being...
Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus jab has been registered in Kazakhstan, the vaccine developers reported via their official Twitter account, TASS reported. "Kazakhstan becomes the 27th country to authorize Sputnik V vaccine," the statement reads. Currently, Sputnik V has been registered in Russia, Belarus, Argentina, Bolivia, Serbia, Algeria, Palestine, Venezuela, Paraguay, Turkmenistan,...