As Russia breaks record for daily Covid-19 cases, Moscow’s main specialist infections hospital has no empty beds for new patients

After bearing the brunt

After bearing the brunt of Russia’s battle with Covid-19 in spring, Moscow had hoped that growing the city’s treatment capacity would weaken a second wave. But now, the capital’s top infections hospital is full to the brim.

In an interview with RT’s Anton Krasovsky, published on Thursday, the director of the Kommunarka facility, Denis Protsenko, admitted that, as the number of cases ramps up in Moscow, its most famous Covid-19 clinic has no space left. It was visited by President Vladimir Putin in March who complimented the work there as being “like clockwork.”

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