Russia’s health minister (l) has rejected widespread scepticism over the vaccine programme Russia has dismissed mounting international concern over the safety of its locally developed Covid-19 vaccine as “absolutely groundless”. Continue Reading
Nearly 6% of people in England were likely infected with COVID-19 during the peak of the pandemic, researchers studying the prevalence of infections said on Thursday, millions more people than Continue Reading
Russia registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, President Vladimir Putin said, marking a milestone in the fight against the new coronavirus but amid safety concerns in the West over the Continue Reading
Russia has become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine against Covid-19, with mass production and immunisation of key workers to begin in the next few weeks. The Continue Reading
People in China are back to buying German luxury cars. Europe’s assembly lines are accelerating. Now the global economy is waiting for the United States to get its coronavirus outbreak Continue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the global vaccine race Tuesday, announcing that the country has become the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine and that his own daughter Continue Reading
A severe household water shortage facing two out of five people in the world is undermining efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. frequeny and thorough hand washing are among the Continue Reading
May 25 marked the 39th anniversary of the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Across the Gulf, the occasion was welcomed as an opportunity to reflect on how the Continue Reading
In Russia’s Dagestan region, the official coronavirus figures started to seem suspicious to residents back in April. The mountainous republic in the North Caucasus region along the Caspian Sea was Continue Reading
Iran has been the worst-affected country in the Middle East The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran’s government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation Continue Reading
