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...
Russia is ready to cooperate on vaccination by its Sputnik V vaccine on the platform of the Council of Europe, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday, Sputnik reported.
"Russia has certified the first coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V. We are working on two more vaccines. We are ready to cooperate on...
The Kremlin said on Thursday that the coronavirus situation in Russia was alarming, but that it was nonetheless still under control, Reuters reported.
Russia reported 19,404 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, close to a record high that included 5,255 infections in Moscow and took the national tally...
The coronavirus situation in Moscow has begun to worsen, the city’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his blog on Thursday, according to TASS.
"The number of new coronavirus cases declined in the past two weeks but the situation began to worsen at the beginning of this week as the number...
Russia reported 19,404 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, close to a record high that included 5,255 infections in Moscow and took the national tally to 1,712,858, Reuters reported.
Authorities also reported 292 virus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the official death toll to 29,509.
Millions of doses of the world’s first Russian-made vaccine against Covid-19 are set to be received by Argentina in the coming months, the country's president has announced. It comes as the pandemic shows no signs of abating, RT writes.
Some 10 million doses are expected to arrive in Argentina in...
Russian scientists made global headlines in August when they unveiled Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved anywhere in the world. But as its roll-out nears, health officials face growing vaccine skepticism, RT reported.
New polling from Moscow's Levada Center this week shows that as many as six...
The world is going through a critical stage of the coronavirus pandemic, and the situation will be complicated in the next few months, the World Health Organization's representative to Russia Melita Vujnovic told TASS.
"Globally, we are at a critical stage of the pandemic, especially in the northern hemisphere. The...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 18,648 in the past 24 hours reaching 1,673,686, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, the growth rate has stood at 1.1% for two days.
The lowest growth rates were recorded in Chechnya, Tatarstan and Dagestan (0.5% each),...
Russian drugmaker Pharmasyntez has asked the Kremlin to allow it to produce a generic version of U.S. COVID-19 drug remdesivir, used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump, despite lacking a patent to do so, the firm’s director said on Monday, as reported by Reuters.
Remdesivir is not available in Russia,...
