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Belavia to launch flights to Russia's Samara, Yekaterinburg in May Archive photo MINSK, 27 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian air carrier Belavia will expand its route map in May, adding to it two new destinations in Russia: Samara and Yekaterinburg, BelTA learned from Belavia's press service. Thanks to this, Belavia will operate regular flights to nine destinations in Russia and will have a total of 45 destinations in Russia on its route map. Belavia will start operating the Minsk-Samara-Minsk flight from 5 May. The flight will be performed on Wednesdays, departing from Minsk at 00:15 and arri...

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PM Mishustin visits Russia's only WHO avian influenza reference laboratory KOLTSOVO, Novosibirsk region. March 5 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has visited the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology. Head of Russian health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova and Vector General Director Rinat Maksyutov gave the prime minister and his delegation a tour of the Vector Center's department of zoonotic infections and influenza. First, Mishustin was shown the protective suits worn by laboratory employees in the Red Zone. The prime minister asked whether the...

Russia Just Alerted The WHO to The World's First Case of H5N8 Avian Flu in Humans ANNA SMOLCHENKO & AMELIE BAUBEAU, AFP 22 FEBRUARY 2021 Russia said Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.   In televised remarks, the head of Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain's genetic material from seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia, where an outbreak was recorded am...

Russia said Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization. In televised remarks, the head of Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain's genetic material from seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia, where an outbreak was recorded among the birds in December. The workers did not suffer any serious health consequences, she added. They are believed to have caught the virus fro...