Russia has announced that clinical trials of its newly-developed coronavirus vaccine will be started next week. Trials will involve tens of thousands of people. According to the international news agency, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which finances the vaccine development, announced in a statement that trials of “immunogenicity and safety of the Sputnik V vaccine” will … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the country has registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine early Tuesday. Vladimir Putin said that Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute has successfully registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine for use. He also said that his daughter is among those who have tested the medicine. He also said that Russia’s Health … Read more
Five coronavirus patients-who were on ventilators, died due to a fire at St. George Hospital in St. Petersburg on Tuesday. Russian emergency officials have reported the incident on Tass’s new agency. Sources said that another 150 people were evacuated from the hospital as fire broke out on the sixth floor of the Saint George Hospital. … Read more
Coronavirus has hit the space station in Russia as a senior Russian official test positive for coronavirus. He was present at last week’s launch to the space lab. According to details, Evrgeniy Mikrin went to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan alongside the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, in a Russian government plane from Moscow. … Read more
The head of the Top Russian research center informed the president Vladimir Putin that experimental coronavirus vaccines will be tried on humans in June in his lab. Head of the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Centre Rinat Maksyutov informed that the first phase of clinical trials of three vaccines will be carried out on 180 … Read more
The novel coronavirus has infected 658 more people in Russia, bringing the total to 5,389 over the last one day, the country’s authorities said on Sunday (April 5). According to the statement of emergency team, The death toll rose to 45 as the infection claimed two more lives since yesterday. The sources said that the … Read more
Russia reported 52 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the total number of infections to 199. 8 of them have recovered but there are still 190 coronavirus cases. According to the sources of Aljazeera, Russia said on Thursday a 79-year-old woman with underlying health issues who tested positive for the new coronavirus had died from … Read more
