A 20% increase in revenue in February 2020 year-on-year was recorded by Russian pharmacies, even before the coronavirus pandemic reached its current proportions, Izvestia reported on Monday, citing data provided in a monthly report from DSM Group agency.
The volume of the commercial drug market amounted to 100.9 billion rubles ($1.26 billion)...
All Moscow residents will be required to stay in home self-isolation from Monday, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday, according to Life.ru.
"Today, I signed a decree on extra measures to prevent a rapid spread of COVID-2019," he wrote on his blog. "Starting from tomorrow, the home self-isolation regime...
The number of the coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 270 over the past day to 1,534, with 65 regions affected by the disease, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday, TASS reported.
"Today 1,534 cases have been registered in Russia. Over the past day, 15 people have...
A "non-working week" began in Russia on Saturday in a move aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, Interfax reported.
All restaurants, bars, motels, children's camps and ski resorts will be closed as early as March 28, and regional authorities have been advised to ban all public events and...
An automatic system capable of conducting over 5,000 COVID-19 tests daily will be presented by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) in one month, the sovereign wealth fund’s CEO Kirill Dmitriev said on Friday, according to RNS.
RDIF and Japan's Mirai Genomics have developed a new diagnostic system for detecting...
From this Saturday (March 28) to April 5, all shops in Moscow except grocery stores and pharmacies will be closed, a decree published on Thursday by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, according to BFM.ru.
"From March 28 to April 5, 2020, all retail trade facilities will be temporarily closed, except...
The co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Jack Ma, and the company’s foundations said on Wednesday they had sent medical equipment, including masks and tests kits, to Russia to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports.
The Alibaba Foundation and the Jack Ma Foundation said in a joint statement...
Official figures do not represent the full scale of the coronavirus crisis in Russia, since the country lacks adequate testing, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin warned President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, according to Interfax.
Some experts and critics have already claimed that Russia is under-reporting the scale of the outbreak, but...
In Russia, the number of coronavirus infected with COVID-19 increased by 53 per day, the operational headquarters said. The total number of cases increased from 253 to 306, Kommersant reported.
New cases of infection were recorded in 18 regions of the country. Of these, six are in Moscow, 17 in...
