Kremlin warns of huge influx of Moscow patients as coronavirus toll climbs

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS APRIL 11, 2020 / 12:57 PM / UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO

Kremlin warns of huge influx of Moscow patients as coronavirus toll climbs

Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Gennady Novik
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Saturday a “huge influx” of coronavirus patients was beginning 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, officials said.

On Saturday, a Reuters witness saw a tailback of dozens of ambulances queuing 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, Russian news agencies reported.

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1. Lying to everybody including yourself about an airborne pandemic leads to 15-hour ambulance queues.

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