Coronavirus cases continue to escalate in Russia

Russia has continued to see a steady rise of new infections, and new hot spots have emerged across the vast country of 147-million people that ranks the second in the world behind the United States in the number of coronavirus cases. | Above: Medical specialists treat a COVID-19 patient in an ICU of the Lomonosov University Clinic, in Moscow.

Moscow and much of the country are in their eighth week of a lockdown. | Above: Grave diggers lower a coffin while burying a person, who died of OVID-19, as mourners gather in a graveyard on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg.

Russia's Emergencies Ministry members wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) spray disinfectant while sanitizing the Kievsky Railway Station in Moscow

Emergency doctors wearing protective equipment transport a man to a hospital for COVID-19 patients in St.Petersburg

Cemetery workers wearing protective equipment pour chlorinated lime into a grave and on the coffin of a coronavirus victim during a burial ceremony at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow

Patients receive treatment in an intensive care unit of the Central Clinical Hospital "RZD-Medicine", which delivers medical aid to people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow

A patient lies connected to a Drager Savina 300 ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

Specialists wearing protective gear spray disinfectant while sanitizing an underground passage amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow

Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) wheel a Covid-19 patient on a gurney inside Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

Medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) wheel a Covid-19 patient on a gurney outside Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

Doctors and medical workers dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) turn over an unconscious Covid-19 patient in his bed in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

A medical worker takes swabs for the coronavirus test from a conscript during a medical checkup at a military conscription office in Moscow

Grave diggers wearing protective suits carry a coffin during the burial of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow

A patient lies on a bed as medical specialists gather in a ward of the Central Clinical Hospital "RZD-Medicine", which delivers treatment to people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow

A medical worker wearing protective clothing helps a woman out of her wheelchair as she leaves after receiving treatment at a hospital for COVID-19 patients in St. Petersburg

Vehicles spray disinfectant while sanitizing a road amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Moscow

Doctors dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) discuss patients overnight condition ahead of their morning rounds inside Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

Cemetery workers wearing protective equipment bury a coronavirus victim at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow

Municipal workers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant in an area in the center of Grozny

Medical specialists transport a person on a stretcher outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the outskirts of Moscow

A medical worker dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) assists a patient with Covid-19 in the hemodialysis care unit ward of Moscow City Clinical Hospital 52 in Moscow

A medical worker wearing protective equipment disinfects his colleague after escorting a patient by ambulance to a hospital for COVID-19 patients in St. Petersburg

Servicemen of Russia's Emergencies Ministry wearing protective gear disinfect Moscow's Leningradsky railway station