The Guardian/Reuters: Moscow hospitals see 'huge influx' of patients as Covid-19 spreads in Russia
Long tailbacks of ambulances seen at a hospital in the capital as mayor warns the outbreak is only in the ‘foothills’.
A “huge influx” of coronavirus patients has started to put a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russia’s death toll rose to more than 100.
Moscow and many other regions have been in lockdown for nearly two weeks to stem the contagion, but hospitals in the capital are still being pushed to their limit, the Kremlin said.
On Saturday, dozens of ambulances queued outside a hospital handling coronavirus cases in the region immediately outside Moscow, waiting to drop off patients.
One ambulance driver said he had been waiting 15 hours outside the hospital to drop off a patient suspected of having the virus.
“The situation in both Moscow and St Petersburg, but mostly in Moscow, is quite tense because the number of sick people is growing,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview on state television, news agencies reported.
“There is a huge influx of patients. We are seeing hospitals in Moscow working extremely intensely, in heroic, emergency mode.”
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WNU Editor: It is bad in Moscow right now. Saint Petersburg not so much, but the storm is coming. All my family members in Russia are now out of the cities (Moscow and Saint Petersburg). They have been preparing for this since the beginning of March, and will only return to the cities once a week to check out our homes and properties. Some of the readers of this blog know that the family business in Russia is real-estate management and development, and are wondering how is this crisis impacting business. I am happy to say that and we are fortunately well positioned to ride out this crisis, we have no debts and our cash position is secured. I am still sad to see all of our new projects put on hold, and our subcontractors sent home. But I am grateful that our own employees are regarded as essential and can still work, and those who rent commercial space from us are established companies or government institutions with long term leases that will still be around when this pandemic ends.
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Russia's Coronavirus Numbers Rise By 1,667, Bringing Total to 13,584 -- Moscow Times
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Pass system in Moscow and Moscow Region to go live from April 15 -- TASS
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