Russia’s death toll from the novel coronavirus passed 19,000 on Thursday, as the country reported 144 new deaths in the previous 24 hours, Reuters reported.
The country’s coronavirus crisis response centre registered 5,762 new cases, bringing its nationwide tally of infections to 1,085,281, the world’s fourth-highest caseload.
The death toll now...
Russia confirmed 5,762 coronavirus cases in the past day, the highest number since July 26, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday, TASS reported.
According to its data, in the past 33 days the daily growth rate did not exceed 0.5% and the total case tally reached 1,085,281.
Some 730...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 5,670 in the past 24 hours, that’s the highest number since July 26, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Wednesday, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate has not exceeded 0.5% for 32 days. The total...
Russia has been getting requests for its coronavirus vaccine from Africa and will address them, but has to attend to its own people first, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Ozerov, who serves as the head of the secretariat for the Russian-African partnership forum, told Sputnik.
"Of course, we received such requests ;...
Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny plans to return to Russia as soon as he recovers from being poisoned, The New York Times reported Monday, citing a German security official.
The Moscow Times says that the opposition leader’s plans follows accounts by Russian paramedics, reported by Reuters, that contradict Moscow’s theory...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 5,529 in the past 24 hours, this is the maximum number since July 27, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate has not exceeded 0.5% for a month, while...
The disrupted clinical trials of the UK coronavirus vaccine by the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company have exposed the risks associated with the excessive reliance upon new unverified technologies, an approach that Russia finds unacceptable, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said on Saturday, Sputnik News...
Russia has recruited sufficient participants for its large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, known as a Phase III trial, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which is backing the vaccine, said on Monday, Reuters reported.
“In just two weeks, 55,000 volunteers have already been recruited in Moscow,” said Kirill Dmitriev, head...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 5,509 to 1,068,320 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Monday, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, the country’s daily coronavirus growth rate has remained at or below 0.5% for 30 days.
The number of COVID-19 fatalities over the past 24...
The first batches of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine have been shipped to all regions of the country, delivery is expected until Monday, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told reporters on Saturday, TASS informs.
"The first batches of the vaccine for testing the supply chain have already been shipped, we are...
