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Inside Russia's coronavirus battle
  • A medical specialist sits inside an ambulance near a hospital in Khimki
  • Man walks past a giant statue of a Russian Matryoshka doll on a street in Suifenhe, a city of Heilongjiang province on the border with Russia, as the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in the country
  • Ambulances queue before driving onto the adjacent territory of a local hospital in Khimki outside Moscow
  • A communal worker sprays disinfectant on the door of a residential building in Moscow.
  • On April 11, in Chelyabinsk, Russia, an abnormal but interesting way of disinfecting hit the streets: by using an aircraft engine.
  • On April 11, in Chelyabinsk, Russia, an abnormal but interesting way of disinfecting hit the streets: by using an aircraft engine.
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 10: Health workers wearing protective suits arrive at Kommunarka Hospital for patients suspected of the coronavirus (Covid-19) infection, in Moscow, Russia on April 10, 2020. People with symptoms of acute viral respiratory infections will be placed in the hospital in Kommunarka to be diagnosed and treated. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
  • Orthodox Church believers, some wearing face masks to protect from coronavirus, attend a religion service inside a church celebrating Orthodox Palm Sunday in Yevpatoria, Crimea, Sunday, April 12, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo)
  • Doctors, wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus, walk to visit a person suspected of having the coronavirus infection at an apartment building in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Moscow's mayor has detailed the system under which most of the Russian capital's 12 million people will be required to have passes to move around the city by vehicle. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
  • Municipal tankers spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, on the empty Garden Ring with the U.S. Embassy on the right, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, April 12, 2020. Moscow's mayor has detailed the system under which most of the Russian capital's 12 million people will be required to have passes to move around the city by vehicle. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Andrei Nikerichev, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, takes part in a video conference of Russian space industry development at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 10, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, takes part in a video conference of Russian space industry development at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 10, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 9, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
  • Police officers check documents of a woman to ensure a self-isolation regime due to coronavirus in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home. The government ordered other regions of the vast country to quickly prepare for the same as Moscow, to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
  • Medical staffers, wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus, one of them with a thermometer, walk inside Sheremetyevo international airport outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Aleksandr Avilov, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)
  • A member from a local veterinary service wearing protective suit sprays disinfectant at a bus stop outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, April 4, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
  • A policeman, foreground, accompanies a group of migrant laborers, who came to renew work permits, to a migration centre in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered most Russians to stay off work until the end of the month as part of a partial industrial shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, wearing a protective suit enters a hall during his visit to the hospital for coronavirus patients in Kommunarka settlement, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 24, 2020. For some people the COVID-19 coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, but for some it can cause severe illness including pneumonia. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
  • A man wearing the protective mask and a municipal worker wearing protective suit walk in central Moscow on April 12, 2020 during a strict lockdown in Russia aimed a curbing the spread of the COVID-19. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP) (Photo by YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 12, 2020: A utility worker disinfecting Pyatnitskaya Street with a special solution recommended by the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Sergei Karpukhin/TASS (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin\TASS via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 12, 2020: A utility worker disinfecting Pyatnitskaya Street with a special solution recommended by the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Sergei Karpukhin/TASS (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin\TASS via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 12, 2020: Azur Air planes at Vnukovo International Airport. Marina Lystseva/TASS (Photo by Marina Lystseva\TASS via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 12, 2020: Azur Air planes at Vnukovo International Airport. Marina Lystseva/TASS (Photo by Marina Lystseva\TASS via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 12, 2020: A road police officer at an entrance to Moscow in Leninsky Prospekt Street. Police do not let cars registered in other regions, except for the Moscow Region, to enter the city as part of the measures to counter the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Alexander Shcherbak/TASS (Photo by Alexander Shcherbak\TASS via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA APRIL 11: Ambulance vehicles queue at the entrance of the Federal Clinical Center of Higher Medical Technologies (Hospital 119) of the Russian Federal Medical Biological Agency in Moscow, Russia on April 11, 2020. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 11, 2020: An aerial view of the construction site of a new infectious diseases hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients by the village of Golokhvastovo. Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail Japaridze\TASS via Getty Images)
  • KHIMKI, MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - APRIL 11, 2020: Ambulance vehicles by the Federal Clinical Center of Higher Medical Technologies (Hospital 119) of the Russian Federal Medical Biological Agency. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)
  • A woman wears a medical mask holds a smartphone standing inside a metro train in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 16, 2020. Starting from early March, Moscow authorities have been sending people who traveled to countries most affected by the coronavirus epidemic and came back with flu-like symptoms to a new hospital on the outskirts of the city. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Victor Berezkin)

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