The Kremlin expects that by June 24, when the Victory Day parade will be held in Moscow, the restrictions imposed due to the threat of the coronavirus COVID-19 will be lifted, said the spokesman for the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, Kommersant reports.
According to Peskov, Vladimir Putin will announce the...
Russian scientists plan to start clinical trials within two weeks on a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus, the health minister was quoted as saying on Saturday as authorities approved the country’s first anti-COVID-19 drug, Reuters reported.
Russia has the world’s third-highest toll of coronavirus infections after the United States...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 8,952 to 396,575 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Saturday, TASS reported.
That said, the total number of cases has increased by 2.3%. At the same time, the number of coronavirus recoveries has risen by...
The new coronavirus is sweeping through some of the mountain villages of Russia’s far-flung Dagestan region and they are struggling to treat patients properly, protect medics or even count the dead, five local officials said, Reuters reported.
President Vladimir Putin has devoted a coronavirus crisis meeting to Dagestan, the only...
Russia on Friday reported 232 deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a record one-day amount that pushed the nationwide death toll to 4,374, Reuters reported.
Officials said 8,572 new infections had been confirmed, bringing the national tally to 387,623, the third-highest reported total in the world...
More than 23% of Russians think the coronavirus threat is not real and the epidemic is made up, according to a survey by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, published on Thursday, Russia Today reported.
Conducted in May, the survey of 30,000 Russians found that 23.2% believe Covid-19 is a work...
Sheremetyevo Airport quickly facilitated the dispatch of multidisciplinary teams of physicians yesterday to combat coronavirus infection in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushetia, Dagestan and the Zabaikalye Territory, along with medication, personal protective equipment and medical equipment.
The physicians will spend about two weeks in those regions of the Russian...
The number of people who died from coronavirus in Russia increased by 174, the Russian anti-coronavirus crisis said, TASS reported.
The same number of deaths were recorded on Tuesday, May 26, it is the highest single-day number of fatalities so far. The crisis center identified 161 deaths Wednesday.
Overall, 4,142 people...
The Kremlin believes that data claiming a 'high' COVID-19 death rate among medics in Russia is inaccurate and it will ask the Ministry of Health for comments, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, as reported by Russian Agency TASS.
"To the best of my knowledge, this is not so," he...
