Health

The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 15,150, the highest during the entire pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Friday, TASS informed. According to the crisis center, the relative daily growth over the past 24 hours has increased to...

The number of recoveries in Moscow after treatment for the coronavirus infection has increased by 1,953 over the past 24 hours to reach 268,423, Deputy Moscow Mayor Anastasia Rakova said on Thursday, Reuters reported. "The number of recoveries in Moscow keeps growing. Over the past day another 1,953 patients recovered...

Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 13,754 in the past day and the total case tally climbed to 1,354,163, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday. The average daily growth rate dropped to 1%, TASS reported.

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio expressed gratitude for Moscow's assistance to Rome in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, during a Wednesday meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Sputnik reported. "Once again I would like to thank Russia for all the assistance that was provided at the darkest...

Russia is expected to boost its monthly coronavirus vaccine production to 1.5 million doses in December, 3-3.5 million doses in January and up to 15 million doses in the spring, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said on Wednesday, as reported by Sputnik. "We plan to produce 800,000 doses in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the registration of the second Russian vaccine against coronavirus and the coming registration of the third candidate, TASS reported. "I would like to begin with pleasant news that the Novosibirsk-based Vector center has registered a second Russian coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona," the Russian president said...

A man suspected of killing three people in a shooting spree in a locality in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region has been found dead, the regional investigation department of the Russian Investigative Committee told Sputnik. "The body was found... Not far from the place where everything happened," the investigators said. It...

The number of novel coronavirus cases among children is growing in Russia and this trend has been recorded in the past two weeks, Director of the National Medical Research Center of Children's Health Andrei Fisenko said on Thursday, TASS reported. "Over the past two weeks there has been a trend...

Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 13,868 in the past day, the highest daily case tally since the start of the epidemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported. The average growth rate rose from 1% to 1.1%. The total COVID-19 case tally in the country reached 1,326,178. Moscow...

Four people were killed and three more wounded as a result of shooting on a passenger bus in the town of Bor in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a source in the law enforcement told TASS. "At present it is known that there were seven people affected as a result of...