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Coronavirus: Moscow urgently builds hospital for infectious diseases

2020-04-19T18:34:16.151Z


The prefabricated hospital, which has 900 places, represents a relief for the hospital system, which was saturated in recent days.


The noise of excavators, trucks and excavators was incessant, the dust raised by the construction machinery was everywhere. Last week, thousands of workers were still busy all over the site. They closed the last trenches, finalized the waterproofing of the roofs, planted large fir trees or installed fences.

If the look was not enough to embrace the entire 40 hectares of the site, wherever you look, something was going on. And despite the apparent chaos, as in a giant anthill, everyone knew what they had to do.

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Near the village of Golokhvastovo, about sixty kilometers southwest of Moscow, the crazy gamble of the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobianin, has come true: to urgently build a hospital entirely dedicated to infectious diseases to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. He announced it on March 10 and gave himself a month. The prefabricated hospital, which has

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Source: lefigaro

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