The R-Pharm Group of companies, one of Russia’s leading biotech companies, has officially completed registration of Artlegia (olokizumab), a new drug which is initially designed for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis but which could be potentially recommended for the treatment of severe forms of COVID-19, according to the company, The...
Closing national frontiers to stop the spread of coronavirus was the right decision in January and February, but keeping them closed now makes no sense, according to Alexander Lukashev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Today reports.
Lukashev, the director of the Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology,...
The World Health Organization’s Representative to Russia, Melita Vujnovic, said that the organization has no questions about Russia’s COVID-19 mortality rates, TASS informs.
"The WHO by no means has any questions about Russia’s coronavirus-related mortality statistics. WHO Emergencies Program Executive Director Michael Ryan voiced a very general idea. He is...
Discussing the suspicions the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 disease is artificial would be senseless, because a number of processes that might support either point of view are impossible to trace, the director of the Ye. I. Martsynovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases,...
As testing ramps up, a growing number of Russians are discovering that they have already had Covid-19. Results show almost 14 percent of people have immunity, meaning millions may have been infected, Russia Today reported.
That’s according to Russia’s consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, citing hundreds of thousands of samples from...
The Kremlin denied on Thursday there was anything untoward with Russia’s official coronavirus death data after the World Health Organisation said this week that Russia’s low death rate was “difficult to understand”, Reuters reports.
Russia has reported more than half a million cases of the new coronavirus, the third largest...
A Russian factory is recalling a model of ventilator linked to two fatal hospital fires in May in order to carry out further safety tests, state healthcare regulator documents showed on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Russia suspended the use of some domestically-produced medical ventilators on May 13 while an investigation into...
Moscow identified 1,572 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, this is the lowest number since April 16, the national anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters Tuesday, TASS reported.
The daily increase rate dropped to 0.8% in Russia’s capital. Yesterday, 2,001 new infections were identified in Moscow. Overall, Moscow has...
Russia confirmed 8,984 daily coronavirus cases, bringing the total tally to 467,673, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday. According to the crisis center, the daily growth reached 2% like the day earlier, TASS informs.
Some 3,458 new COVID-19 patients (38.5%) have not shown any symptoms. Now more than...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 8,726 to 449,834 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday.
According to the crisis center, the country’s daily coronavirus growth rate has for the first time fallen below 2%, to 1.98%, TASS reported.
Another 762 cases...
