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MOSCOW: The nerve agent used to poison Leader of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny It was detected in an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said Thursday. Navalny …

Russia Sputnik-V vaccine: 100 million doses of Sputnik-V vaccine to be sold to India (Representative) Moscow: Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has agreed to supply 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik-V, to Indian pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, the fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow accelerates plans to distribute …

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with India’s leading pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, to cooperate in clinical trials and distribution of the Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19 in India. “Following regulatory approval in India, the RDIF will supply Dr. Reddy’s 100 million …

Fifteen scientists from five countries signed the letter presenting their concerns to the international medical journal, Enrico Bucci, an associate professor biologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, told Reuters. Reuters did not see the content of the letter. Nonetheless, the move highlights growing concern among scientists about the safety and …

The Russian government said on Monday that more than 250 Moscow residents received the dose of its first Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, in the past five days, according to a report. The vast majority of them are in good health, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters today. “During the last …

“The first batches of the vaccine have already been shipped to test the supply chain, now we are checking the delivery system so that the staff are aware of it. The first small batches have already been shipped to all regions, the Leningrad region as well to receive [the vaccine] …

In the midst of the race to produce a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus, Russia announced today that it will be able to vaccinate more than 1 billion people within 2020-2021, according to a report. The country’s sovereign wealth fund said more than 1 billion people would receive its …

MOSCOW: Twenty-six scientists, most of them working in universities in Italy, signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the results of the early-phase trial of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, called “Sputnik-V”. Addressing the editor of The Lancet, the international peer-reviewed medical journal in which the …

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, met in Moscow on Thursday amid hopes for possible progress in reducing tensions along the Royal Line of Control (LAC). in eastern Ladakh. The talks between the two foreign ministers are taking place in the context of a massive rise …

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Moscow. According to the MEA spokesman, the two ministers had “excellent” discussions on bilateral issues and of international interest. “There was an excellent discussion on bilateral issues, regional …