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MOSCOW( AP)--Russia hit another record of daily coronavirus deaths Tuesday as the country struggled with a rapid surge of infections and lagging vaccination rates, but authorities have been adamant that there would be no new national lockdown.... Russia has repeatedly hit record daily death tolls this month, and daily infections also have been hovering near all-time highs, with 28, 190 new cases reported Tuesday.... The soaring infections has raised the pressure on Russia's health care system,

6, 2020 file photo provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund, an employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia.... The government said this week that about 43 million Russians, or about 29% of the country's nearly 146 million people, are fully vaccinated.... Despite the mounting toll, the Kremlin has ruled out a new nationwide lockdown like the one early on in the pandemic that badly hurt the economy, erodi

MOSCOW( Reuters)-A central Russian region on Saturday suspended COVID-19 vaccinations for two days due to a shortage of doses, local officials said, as the country reported its highest daily increase in coronavirus cases since mid-January. Russia is facing a surge in new cases that authorities blame on the highly infectious Delta variant and slow progress on the vaccination drive, with daily deaths hitting a record in the capital, Moscow, on Friday. Following shortages that suspended inoculation

MOSCOW--Russian health authorities on Thursday launched booster vaccination for those who had been sick with COVID-19 or immunized more than six months ago, an effort that comes amid a surge in new infections and deaths. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he had received a booster shot and urged city residents to follow suit.“ In view of the difficult epidemiological situation today, doctors recommend having booster shots six months after vaccination, ” Sobyanin said on his blog.... “ I'm pleadi

The death toll in Eastern Europe reached 1, 045, 454 on Thursday, compared with 1, 873, 253 in all of Europe.... Anna Popova, head of Russia's state consumer watchdog, voiced concern over the potential impact of 10 days of New Year holidays.... Ukraine has the lowest rate with nearly 33% of its residents receiving a single dose, according to Our World in Data....

Open this photo in gallery People, most of them without face masks, walk at Red Square during sunset in Moscow on June 24. Alexander Zemlianichenko/ The Associated PressThey tried grocery giveaways and lotteries for new cars and apartments.... Then they took a series of measures that were clearly attempted to make it seem as though the government had everything under control, the pandemic was no big deal.... … And now they’re in this situation, not surprisingly, where low vaccination rates hav

PERM, RUSSIA( AFP)-Shocked and grieving Russians gathered outside a university in the city of Perm on Tuesday( Sept 21) after a student went on a campus shooting spree, killing six people and wounding dozens. With a heavy police cordon still around Perm State University a day after the killings, they laid red carnations and lit candles at makeshift memorials.Dr Ksenia Punina, a professor of international relations at the university, told AFP she was in shock and in pain at the beginning of an of