Traffic Jams Outside Moscow Hospitals as COVID-19 Toll Climb

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.

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.”