A new hospital is being quickly built outside of Moscow to treat COVID-19 patients.
Scores of workers with heavy equipment are working quickly to assemble a prefabricated structure in Babenki, about 50 kilometers southwest of the Russian capital.
City officials have said the 500-bed hospital would be ready in the "near future."
Currently, patients in Moscow suspected of having the novel coronavirus are being sent to an infectious-diseases hospital in Kommunarka.
As of March 17, Russia had confirmed more than 100 cases of COVID-19, with over 50 cases in Moscow and no reported deaths.
Russia Rushes To Build Hospital For COVID-19 Treatment
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Trucks at the construction site
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Sobyanin says the new hospital is being built in an area without large apartment blocks and would not pose a danger to the local population.
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Construction workers at the site