Medical workers move a medical device at the Botkin isolation hospital, where patients are kept in isolation for possible inflection by the new coronavirus, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, with Russia only reporting a few hundred virus cases. The highly contagious COVID-19 coronavirus can cause mild symptoms, but for some it can cause severe illness including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
March 24, 2020
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March 24, 2020 10:54 a.m.
Russia ramps up measures against coronavirus as cases grow
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities acknowledged Tuesday that a low number of coronavirus cases in the country could be a result of insufficient screening and warned that the nation must brace for the worst.