Satellite images reveal Russia is rapidly building a 500-bed hospital in a field outside Moscow to handle a surge in coronavirus cases
This image shows the scene of the future hospital on November 11, 2019 — more than a month before the pandemic emerged in or around Wuhan, China.
This is the same location on March 28, 2020. An entire field of crops has been scoured into an expansive and bustling emergency construction yard.
This before-and-after tool shows the preceding two images for comparison. The photo at left was taken by Maxar's WorldView-3 satellite; the image at right was taken by WorldView-2.
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A zoomed-in version shows the heart of the construction site.
Roughly a dozen cranes are working simultaneously to lift girders and other building materials into place.
At the east end of the site, hundreds of construction workers' cars can be seen parked in a field.
Just across the street is a small village and what appears to 50 tents, possibly worker barracks or supply storage.
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