When COVID-19 was ravaging densely populated parts of the U.S., Europe and India throughout the spring and summer, many in Russia hoped the country’s vast emptiness would act as a kind of natural physical distancing and slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Medics have a short rest in front of a hospital where patients infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus are being treated in the settlement of Kommunarka outside Moscow on Oct. 27, 2020.
