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Russian PM says mass coronavirus vaccination will start by end of week
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin pledged on Friday that the country would start COVID-19 vaccination at the end of the week and authorities would not miss the deadline.
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US returns 12 out-of-use military bases on Korean Peninsula to Seoul - Rep
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States on Friday returned 12 closed military bases to the South Korean government, including some in the Yongsan Garrison complex in central Seoul, amid fear growing that an additional delay would further hamper regional development effo
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Russia registers 28,585 COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours
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Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 28,585 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, up from 27,927 the day before, bringing the total to 2,597,711, the federal response center said on Friday.
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French Transport Minister to meet Russia's Industry Minister in Moscow on
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Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): French Minister Delegate for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari will pay a visit to Moscow on Friday to meet Russia's Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov and Russian Railways chief Oleg Belozyorov, and attend Synertech (a joint venture of A
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Russia's Sputnik V developers ready to share technology with Sanofi / GSK
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The developers of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus has expressed readiness to share its technology with France's Sanofi and the UK's GSK companies to help them with their vaccine development, the Russian vaccine's official Twitter acc
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Biden should heed environmentalists' calls, become first plastic-free pres
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Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): As the incoming US president, Joe Biden should address the plastic pollution problem in the United States and become the first plastic-free president, Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder, and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, a US-based environmental allian
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Azerbaijan's Parliament lifts martial law
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Baku [Azerbaijan], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani parliament voted on Friday to enact a presidential decree to lift the martial law, which was imposed on September 28 due to escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
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Russia's Navy, Aerospace Forces crews are 1st to be vaccinated against COV
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Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Crews of Russia's Navy and Aerospace Forces, combat squads of the Strategic Missile Forces, and doctors are the first in line to receive the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, the Defense Ministry's spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said.
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COVID-19 not changing plans for Russia's Far East development - Deputy Pri
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Vladivostok [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has partially affected the work of enterprises but will not change plans for the development of Russia's Far East, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, who also serves as the presidential
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Over 10,000 Russian servicemen vaccinated against Coronavirus: Defense Min
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Moscow [Russia], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Over 10,000 Russian servicemen have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus, with no refusals registered to receive the Sputnik V vaccine, the Defense Ministry's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
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Germany registers record 29,875 new COVID-19 cases over past day
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Berlin [Germany], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): Germany has confirmed 29,875 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, with the total count reaching 1,272,078, the Robert Koch Institute said on Friday.
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First doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine set to arrive in Canada in 'Few D
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Toronto [Canada], December 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The first 30,000 doses of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine are due to arrive in Canada in a matter of days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters.
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