As many as 589 coronavirus deaths were recorded in Russia in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the beginning of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Wednesday, TASS informed.
According to data from the crisis center, 1.75% of coronavirus patients have died in the country.
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Russia reported a record 569 deaths linked to the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the official death toll to 40,464, Reuters reported.
Authorities also reported 26,402 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, including 6,524 in the capital Moscow, bringing the national cumulative tally to 2,322,056.
Russia has delivered the first known batch of Sputnik V vaccines for civilian use to a hospital just south of Moscow, which said on Monday it began vaccinating the local population last week, Reuters reported.
Russia, which is rushing to keep up with Western drug makers in the race for...
The coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to end in the coming months, the World Health Organization's representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic said in an interview with TASS.
In response to a question, she pointed out that the pandemic would end "once a vaccine makes it possible to reach the necessary level of...
Russia plans to begin mass trials of its second coronavirus vaccine, EpiVacCorona, on people aged over 18 on Monday, the RIA news agency cited the consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying.
According to Reuters, EpiVacCorona, which is being developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, was authorised this month to carry out...
Universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg will switch students to remote learning for two months to prevent the spread of coronavirus during the pandemic's record-setting second wave, Science and Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov said Monday, The Moscow Times reported.
“I signed an order yesterday switching the universities under the...
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...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 26,683 in the past day to 2,269,316, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS reported.
A day earlier the crisis center reported 27,100 new cases.
Moscow confirmed 6,798 new COVID-19 cases and the total case tally in the Russian capital reached 599,213. St. Petersburg...
A UK expert in virology and epidemiology believes Russia had presented sufficient evidence to prove the efficacy of its Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus, TASS reports citing Canada’s CBC channel.
"The data compatible with the vaccine being reasonably effective," the channel quoted Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual press conference via video link on December 17, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Friday, TASS reported.
"At noon on November 29, the Russian Presidential Media and Information Department will begin accrediting journalists for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual...
