Moscow set a new single-day record of more than 8,000 coronavirus cases as national deaths and infections shattered previous records Thursday, The Moscow Times reports.
The latest record comes as Moscow prepares to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s without its traditional mass festivities due to the pandemic.
Of the 8,203 newly...
Russia’s coronavirus cases in the past day rose by 29,935, a new high since the start of the pandemic, TASS reports, citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
The total COVID-19 case tally hit 2,963,688, according to the crisis center. The growth rate rose to 1%.
Moscow confirmed 8,203 coronavirus cases in the...
Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, developer of the first Russian vaccine against COVID-19, said on Wednesday it would no longer give placebos to volunteers in its large-scale final-stage trials for the Sputnik V shot, RIA news agency reported.
Alexander Gintsburg, the institute’s director, said the Health Ministry had authorized the move. “Everything...
Russia’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday it was halting the uptake of new volunteers in its main trial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, Reuters reports citing TASS.
Earlier on Wednesday, the vaccine’s developers at the Gamaleya Institute said they felt it was no longer ethical to administer a...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 27,250 in the past day and the total case tally reached 2,933,753, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reports.
The growth rate in cases dropped to 0.9% for the first time since October 8.
The lowest growth rates were registered in the past...
Russia has confirmed 28,776 cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the past 24 hours, with the total case count going up to 2,906,503, the anti-coronavirus crisis center informed reporters on Tuesday, TASS reports.
The day before, 29,350 daily cases were recorded, which was the highest...
The number of patients currently ill with COVID-19 is not changing or dropping, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Tuesday, TASS reports.
"The number of patients with the novel coronavirus infection in acute form is not dropping yet," he noted.
At the same time, the minister underlined that the situation is...
Senior citizens over 60 years old will be eligible to receive Russia Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus after New Year, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya research center that developed the vaccine, said on Monday, adding that trials on this age group are close to completion.
Currently,...
The number of coronavirus infections in Russia went up by record-high 29,350 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,877,727, the national anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters Monday.
According to the crisis center, the increase does not exceed 1%, TASS reports.
The slowest infection increases in the past 24...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 28,948 in the past day, the highest number since December 6, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS writes.
Since the start of the pandemic the total case tally has reached 2,848,377 or more than 1.9% of citizens. The highest daily caseload in...
