Traffic Jams Outside Moscow Hospitals as COVID-19 Toll Climbs (+Video)

A massive queue of the vehicles was filmed outside the War Veterans Hospital in the north of the capital on Friday. The footages posted on social media show vans emblazoned with red crosses occupying not only the approach road to the hospital – recently repurposed to treat COVID-19 patients – but also most of the neighboring street.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia currently stands at 15,770, with 130 people having died. More than half of the infected and fatalities are in Moscow, which is the largest city in Russia and the country’s main transport hub.

Officials from the medical crisis center in charge of Russia’s battle against the coronavirus told RT that the queues of ambulances appeared outside some hospitals due to “the current epidemiological situation, which saw the flow of patients increasing in recent days.”