Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Oct. 9
Oct. 8
— Russia confirmed 11,493 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,260,112. Russia's number of new daily cases has been higher than 11,000 for three consecutive days.
— Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is self-isolating after coming into contact with a coronavirus-infected individual, the Church announced.
Oct. 7
— Russia confirmed 11,115 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,248,619.
Oct. 6
— Russia confirmed 11,615 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,237,504. The increase is just 41 fewer than the country's highest daily total of 11,656 which was recorded on May 11.
Oct. 5
— Russia confirmed 10,888 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,225,889.
Oct. 4
— Russia confirmed 10,499 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,215,001.
Oct. 3
— Russia confirmed 9,859 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,204,502.
— Ukraine's former President Petro Poroshenko has been hospitalized with double pneumonia, his wife said Saturday, days after he tested positive for Covid-19.
Oct. 2
— Russia confirmed 9,412 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,194,643.
— Moscow could receive bulk shipments of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020 while the vaccine continues to undergo final clinical trials, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
Oct. 1
— Russia confirmed 8,945 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,185,231.
Sept. 30
— Russia confirmed 8,481 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,176,286.
Sept. 29
— Russia confirmed 8,232 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,167,805 as the number of new infections across the country continues to rise.
— Moscow's schools will take a two-week vacation from Oct.5-18 in order to slow the city's rise in coronavirus cases, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced, saying that a large number of asymptomatic cases are among children.
— The State Duma will partially return to remote work to prevent the spread of coronavirus, its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced Tuesday.
— Volodin added that eight deputies have been hospitalized with coronavirus in the past week, bringing the total to 18. Overall, 60 State Duma deputies have been infected and recovered from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
Sept. 28
— Russia confirmed 8,135 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,159,573.
— Around 5,000 volunteers including those who are at higher risk of severe infection have received Russia’s coronavirus vaccine as part of final clinical trials for safety and effectiveness, its developer said.
Sept. 27
— Russia confirmed 7,867 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,151,438.
Sept. 26
— Russia confirmed 7,523 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,143,571 as the number of new infections across the country continues to rise.
— Russia’s coronavirus treatment drug Avifavir will be made available in 17 more countries in addition to the six countries where it is already sold, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said in a statement Thursday.
— Russia’s second candidate vaccine against the coronavirus is less than a month away from state approval after completing small-scale human trials, the vaccine’s developers said this week.
Sept. 25
— Russia confirmed 7,212 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,136,048 as the number of new infections across the country continues to rise.
— Moscow is urging its businesses to reinstate work-from-home measures and elderly residents to avoid going outside starting next week as the city sees a new uptick in coronavirus cases, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday.
Sept. 24
— Russia confirmed 6,595 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,128,836.
— Moscow confirmed more than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the first time since June 23.
— Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has reportedly asked Sberbank, Yandex and Rostec to resume remote work for some employees, the RBC news website reported, citing copies of Sobyanin's letters it obtained.
Sept. 23
— Russia confirmed 6,431 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,122,241.
Sept. 22
— Russia confirmed 6,215 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,115,810.
— President Vladimir Putin in a speech at the United Nations boasted of Russia's creation of the world's first coronavirus vaccine, though it has not completed large-scale clinical trials.
— Russia will share legal liability for unexpected side effects of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the head of its sovereign wealth fund told Reuters, a move that could potentially result in costly compensation claims for its developers.
— At least 10 members of Russia’s lower house of parliament are currently hospitalized with coronavirus and more than 50 have developed antibodies, its speaker said Tuesday.
Sept. 21
— Russia confirmed 6,196 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,109,595.
— Authorities in China’s eastern Jilin province have discovered traces of coronavirus on packages of frozen squid imported from Russia, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
— Recruits in Moscow have reported no side effects after taking China’s candidate coronavirus vaccine as part of large-scale clinical trials, the Russian pharmaceutical company working with the vaccine's Chinese developers announced.
Sept. 20
— Russia confirmed 6,148 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,103,399.
Sept. 19
— Russia confirmed 6,065 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,097,251. It is another daily increase in cases and the first time Russia has reported more than 6,000 new infections since July 19.
— Russia said it will resume flights with Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from Sept. 21 and with South Korea from Sept. 27.
Sept. 18
— Russia confirmed 5,905 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,091,186.
— Russia said it will resume flights with Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from Sept. 21 and with South Korea from Sept. 27.
Sept. 17
— Russia confirmed 5,762 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,085,281.
Sept. 16
— Russia confirmed 5,670 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,079,519.
— Russia will sell 100 million doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to India once final trials and regulatory steps are completed, Russia’s sovereign fund that is bankrolling the project announced.
Sept. 15
— Russia confirmed 5,529 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,073,849.
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Sept. 14
— Russia confirmed 5,509 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,068,320.
Sept. 13
— Russia confirmed 5,449 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,062,811.
Sept. 12
— Russia confirmed 5,488 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,057,362.
Sept. 11
—Russia's coronavirus cases continue to rise as the country confirmed 5,504 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,051,874.
— The number of new daily infections has increased for three consecutive days.
— Nearly half of Russians say they will never vaccinate against the coronavirus regardless of its country of production, according to a survey cited by the RBC news website.
Sept. 10
— Russia confirmed 5,363 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,046,370.
— Moscow authorities will no longer require a two-week home quarantine period for people with symptoms of acute respiratory viral infection if the individuals test negative for coronavirus, deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova said.
— The Bolshoi Theater has canceled its Sept. 10 performance of the opera "Don Carlos" after one of its soloists tested positive for the coronavirus. The iconic Moscow theater re-opened to the public for the first time since March on Sept. 6 and had staged two performances of "Don Carlos" so far.
Sept. 9
— Russia confirmed 5,218 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,041,007.
— Russia has launched Phase 3 trials of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to determine the jab’s long-term safety and effectiveness, authorities said Wednesday. A group of prominent scientists and doctors has questioned the published results of the vaccine's initial trials.
Sept. 8
— Russia confirmed 5,099 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,035,789.
Sept. 7
— Russia confirmed 5,185 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,030,690.
— Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the possible joint production of a Russian coronavirus vaccine, the Kremlin said.
Sept. 6
— Russia confirmed 5,195 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,025,505.
Sept. 5
— Russia confirmed 5,205 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,020,310.
— Russia recorded more than 30,000 excess deaths in July as the coronavirus pandemic continued to sweep across the country, new data from the country’s statistics service Rosstat has shown.
Sept. 4
— For the first time since Aug. 15, more than 5,000 people were infected with coronavirus in Russia on Friday (5,100) bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,015,105.
— 121 people died overnight. 17,649 have died since the start of the pandemic.
— Russia has added Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Maldives to the list of countries it plans to restart flights with five months after closing its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic.
— Patients involved in early tests of a Russian coronavirus vaccine developed antibodies with "no serious adverse events", according to research published in The Lancet, but experts said the trials were too small to prove safety and effectiveness.
Sept. 3
— Russia confirmed 4,995 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,009,995
— 114 people died overnight. 17,528 have died since the start of the pandemic.
Sept. 2
— Russia confirmed 4,952 new coronavirus infections, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,005,000
— Elderly scientists who helped develop Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine have not reported adverse effects after being injected, the head of the research institute behind the inoculation told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.
— Russia plans to begin the first mass deliveries of its coronavirus vaccine in September, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.
— Greece and Poland have updated their coronavirus travel restrictions to allow Russian citizens to cross their borders for two-week periods as Russia’s virus caseload topped the one million milestone
Sept. 1
— Russia surpassed 1 million cases of Covid-19 nationwide on, making it the fourth country after the United States, Brazil and India to reach the milestone.
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