Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and its partner Chemrar will supply the COVID-19 drug Avifavir to 17 additional countries, the fund said in a statement on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Avifavir gained approval from the Russian health ministry in May and is based on Favipiravir, which was developed in Japan and is...
Moscow identified 1,050 new cases of coronavirus in a single day, the highest number since June 23, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters Thursday.
The daily increase accelerated to 0.4%, while 970 new cases were reported in the city yesterday, TASS reported.
In the past 24 hours, 1,304 patients recovered and...
The Russian nationals who arrive in the country from abroad should self-isolate at home while waiting for results of their PCR tests for coronavirus that they need to do within three days since arrival, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova said in a regulation, TASS reported.
"Until results of the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) responded to the pandemic in a prompt, professional and proper manner, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting with WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge on Wednesday, TASS reported.
At the beginning of the meeting, Mishustin and Kluge greeted each bumping elbows...
Expert observations have indicated that many people two-three months after contracting the novel coronavirus infection have lower levels of protective antibodies while in some individual cases they have not been developed at all, head of the clinical research department of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of the Federal...
The Norilsk Nickel company will pay for COVID-19 PCR tests of all passengers arriving at the Alykel Airport, the company’s Deputy Director of the Polar Division Anastasiya Perfilyeva told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported.
The airport is a hub for passengers traveling to the Norilsk Industrial District and to Taimyr.
Norilsk...
Russia expects to register a second potential vaccine against COVID-19 by Oct. 15, the TASS news agency cited Russian consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying on Tuesday.
The vaccine has been developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, which completed early-stage human trials of the vaccine last week.
Russia registered its first vaccine...
Pumping gas through the Power of Siberia pipeline, which supplies gas to Russian consumers in the Far East and China, resumed on Tuesday after scheduled maintenance work, Gazprom said.
"Scheduled maintenance work on the Power of Siberia gas pipeline has been completed. Gas transportation, as planned, has been resumed today...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 6,215 in the past day, reaching 1,115,810, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported.
According to its data, in the past four days the growth rate did not exceed 0.6%.
Some 980 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Moscow, 211 in St. Petersburg,...
A scientist involved in the secret Soviet program to create the Novichok nerve agent has apologized to the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is recovering from poisoning in Berlin, The Moscow Times reported.
Vil Mirzayanov, a chemist who was the first to reveal Novichok's development, in an interview with...
