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Shocking videos and images of long lines of ambulances outside Moscow hospitals have appeared when senior officials reported an alarming coronavirus crisis in the Russian capital.
Queues of dozens of medical vehicles were seen, all with patients showing symptoms of COVID-19 outside of city clinics.
There were at least 45 ambulances lining up to deliver patients for treatment on video as the Kremlin declared a state of emergency in Moscow hospitals.
A long line stood outside a hospital in the Khimki suburb near Moscow’s main Sheremetyevo airport.
Another was seen at the No.3 Hospital for War Veterans in the Losinoostrovskoy district.
Patients waited up to 15 hours before doctors could see them.
At least 45 ambulances were seen queuing to deliver patients for treatment on video, as the Kremlin said Moscow hospitals were in “emergency mode.”
Queues of dozens of emergency vehicles were observed with patients displaying coronavirus symptoms outside various city clinics in Moscow
In a video filmed by a resident from his window in front of the Khimki hospital, the man says: ‘All these [ambulances] are driving coronaviruses [patients].
‘That is the hospital in front of my window. And this is the ambulance line.
‘Just think about it, every patient needs to be admitted. That takes about 20 minutes per patient. So many ambulances … this is the end …
The Kremlin said on Saturday that a “ large influx ” of coronavirus patients was starting to put pressure on hospitals in Moscow as the death toll in Russia rose to 130.
Moscow and many other regions have been locked up for nearly two weeks to stop the spread, but hospitals in the capital are still being pushed to the limit, authorities said.
On Saturday, dozens of ambulances were seen queuing in front of a hospital handling coronavirus cases in the region immediately outside Moscow, waiting to drop off patients.
An ambulance driver (not in the photo) said he had been waiting 15 hours outside the hospital to leave a patient suspected of having the virus.
Russia’s coronavirus crisis response center said hospitals were taking every possible measure to ensure rapid admissions. In the photo, there are ambulances queuing in front of a hospital in Moscow.
An 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 Saint Petersburg, but mainly in Moscow, is quite tense because the number of sick people is growing,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview on state television, news agencies reported. Russian.
‘There is a large influx of patients. We are seeing hospitals in Moscow working extremely intensively, in heroic and emergency mode. ”
Russia’s coronavirus crisis response center said hospitals were taking every possible measure to ensure rapid admissions and that ambulance cases that had to wait hours to drop off patients were not a systemic problem.
A Telegram channel Mosnow said hospitals “cannot handle” the flow of ambulances.
‘Ambulances spend hours driving between hospitals. It seems that there are no more places.
The “majority” of patients have symptoms that coincide with the coronavirus.
A Telegram Mosnow channel said hospitals “cannot handle” the flow of ambulances
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman admitted that the capital hospital faced an “extremely” difficult situation with the pandemic.
Vehicles spraying disinfectant while disinfecting a road to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease in Moscow today
The number of confirmed cases in Moscow soared over the weekend in 2,336 cases and has two-thirds of all registered infections in the country.
Russia has more than 15,770 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 130 deaths, but the numbers are starting to rise sharply.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman admitted that the capital hospital faced an “extremely” difficult situation with the pandemic.
“Moscow hospitals are in emergency mode,” he said, adding that St. Petersburg was also affected by an increase in cases.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin’s health was “excellent” despite encountering a senior doctor who had contracted the coronavirus.
Deputy Mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova said: ‘Along with the growing number of people who are seriously ill, the pressure on the capital’s health service has increased considerably.
Alarming videos and images of long lines of ambulances outside Moscow hospitals have emerged after warnings by officials of a worsening of the coronavirus crisis in the Russian capital.
A road police officer at an entrance to Moscow on Leninsky Prospekt street today. Police do not allow cars registered in other regions except the Moscow Region to enter the city as part of measures to counter the spread of the coronavirus.
“Our hospitalization and ambulance facilities are now working at their limits.”
Russia has reported 13,584 cases of the virus, and authorities said on Saturday that 12 new coronavirus-related deaths in the last day had brought the number of deaths to 106.
Peskov added that it would be clearer only in the coming weeks if the country was approaching the worst point of its outbreak.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said on Friday that the city was far from reaching the peak of the outbreak, saying it was simply in its “foothills”.
On Saturday, he said Moscow will introduce digital permits next week to control movement around the city to help enforce the blockade.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the worst was yet to come, adding: “ I can tell you with certainty that there has been no spike yet. We are more in the foothills of this peak, not even in the middle.
Chancellor Pyotr Glybochko (left) and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin last week visited a building reused by Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University as a hospital with a 210 bed capacity, to admit patients suspected or diagnosed with coronavirus .
He urged the hospitals: “We have a delay in time so that we can better prepare ourselves for the coming blow.”
Peskov said Russia’s goal was to emulate Germany instead of other European countries.
Russia is preparing to open a new emergency coronavirus hospital in a matter of days, built from scratch at a new site in less than a month.
The new £ 92 million clinic in Moscow has been built by more than 10,000 construction workers deployed 24 hours.
It is the largest of some 18 newly built hospitals that are being erected across Russia to deal with the Covid-19 crisis, and the only one not built by the military.
Almost half of the beds in the new Moscow clinic will be in intensive care units and 40 more clinics are being rebuilt to receive patients with coronavirus.
The city’s Kommunarka infectious disease hospital is reported to be packed with ‘elite’ patients suffering from coronavirus or its symptoms.
A patient in Kommunarka is the head of the hospital, Dr. Denis Protsenko, who caused a health scare after meeting and shaking Putin’s hand and subsequently being diagnosed with COVID-19.
