An 800-bed hospital that was hastily built to treat coronavirus patients outside Russia's capital Moscow is ready to become fully operational. The clinic, 70 kilometers south of Moscow, was inspired by a coronavirus facility in the Chinese city of Wuhan, was built in a month.

The doctors and nurses of Moscow's Spasokukotsky hospital are dealing with a surge of coronavirus patients. An entire wing of the city hospital has been turned over to virus patients. Almost all the beds are full less than a week after it opened.

Russia is seeing a major increase in coronavirus cases, with Moscow's sprawling metropolis at the epicenter, after initially avoiding the mass outbreaks that hit parts of Western Europe weeks ago. Of 62,773 confirmed Russian cases as of Thursday, 33,940 are in Moscow, which also accounts for 288 of the country's 555 deaths.