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Diabetics are 10.3 times more likely to develop Covid-19, and their symptoms are more severe and life-threatening, with over a quarter of all infected patients already suffering from the illness as a pre-existing condition, RT informed. That’s according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who told officials that coronavirus...
After a strict lockdown last spring, the introduction of a second coronavirus quarantine in Russia has the potential to result in severe economic hardship and psychological suffering, which could eventually lead to mass unrest, RT writes. That’s according to Fyodor Lisitsyn, a senior specialist at Moscow’s Gamaleya Research Institute of...
The number of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in Moscow in the past day reached 1,231 and 343 people are connected to ventilators, the city’s crisis center for controlling and monitoring the coronavirus situation reported on Thursday, TASS reported. "Some 4,413 new cases of the coronavirus infection have been confirmed in...
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko will self-isolate after one of his family members tested positive for COVID-19, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday, citing one of Murashko’s aides. Russia recorded 15,971 new coronavirus infections on Thursday and 290 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing its official death toll to 25,242,...
The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) does not intend to scale down its testing of athletes despite the worsening epidemiological situation in the country, RUSADA told TASS. "We are trying to maintain the testing scale and prevent suspension of it as it was in spring when we could not collect samples between...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 15,971 in the past day to 1,463,306, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday, TASS reported. A 1.1% growth rate in cases was recorded in the past two days. The lowest growth rates in the past 24 hours were registered in the Nenets Autonomous Region...
The Kremlin has rejected the possibility that the artificial lung ventilators that Russia had shipped to the US in the spring could have been of inferior quality, Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday, commenting on FEMA’s reported disposal of the Russian lung ventilators in the United States, TASS...
A new study has revealed that it's the fallout from a second wave of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic which has overtaken work and money problems as the primary thing which scares most Russians, RT reports. Every quarter, the Public Relations Development Company (CROS) analyzes Russia's mass media and social networks...
The number of doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 produced each month in Russia may increase five-fold from October to December, the Russian minister of industry and trade, Denis Manturov, said on Tuesday, as reported by Sputnik. "Regarding the volume, we have not changed our parameters to date....
The main advantages of EpiVacCorona, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, are its effectiveness, safety and simplicity of production, the center's Director-General Rinat Maksyutov said on Monday. "The expected advantage of this vaccine compared to other...