A view of a graffiti with inscription reading “to win” in front of a multi-specialty hospital complex in the Kommunarka settlement in New Moscow, Russia, 26 March 2020. People with symptoms of acute viral respiratory infections will be placed in the hospital in Kommunarka to be diagnosed and treated. Russian officials report about 844 infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the COVID-19 disease. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman wearing face mask waits to cross a nearly empty road due to residents taking the advice of staying at home to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, with Moscow City skyscrapers in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Online shopping for food and other supplies has boomed in Moscow after the authorities put most residents on lockdown. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A police officer patrols a deserted Red Square during the pandemic of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia on April 6, 2020. As of 6 April 2020, Russia has reported more than 6,300 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, with more than 4,400 confirmed cases in Moscow. Since 30 March 2020, Moscow has been on lockdown in connection with the pandemic. The Russian government announced a paid period off work for employed people and school holidays, which is expcted to last till the end of April. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





A man sleeps on a bench on a deserted street of downtown Moscow on March 30, 2020 as the city and its surrounding regions imposed lockdowns today, that were being followed by other Russian regions in a bid to slow the spread of the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel coronavirus. The enforcement of the strict new rules, which Moscow Mayor suddenly announced for the capital late Sunday, coincide with the beginning of a “non-working” week declared by Russian President the week before. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)





The pink supermoon rises behind the Chariot of Glory sculptural group in central Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 7, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





People cross Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street during the pandemic of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Moscow, Russia on April 6, 2020. Public transport continues to operate, however people are told not to leave home except for essential purposes. As of 6 April 2020, Russia has reported more than 6,300 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, with more than 4,400 confirmed cases in Moscow. Since 30 March 2020, Moscow has been on lockdown in connection with the pandemic. The Russian government announced a paid period off work for employed people and school holidays, which is expected to last till the end of April. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





A member from a local veterinary service wearing protective suit sprays disinfectant on a platform of the railway station in Ladozhskoye Ozero village outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A view of a full parking of rental cars in Podolsk, Russia, 31 March 2020. Russian authorities imposed a week long home quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes the COVID-19 disease. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)





A woman walking a dog by a statue of Ostap Bender, a character of satirical novels by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov in St Petersburg, Russia on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)





Migrants wearing protective facemasks hurry to renew work and residence permits in Russia at a migration centre in Saint Petersburg on April 3, 2020, amid the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





A view shows a snow-covered street, after the city authorities announced a partial lockdown ordering residents to stay at home to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in central Moscow, Russia on March 31, 2020. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





An employee wearing a protective mask, used as a measure against coronavirus disease (COVID-19), carries a bag with flour at a bakery in the city of Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol region, Russia on March 27, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Police officers walk across an empty Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home. The government ordered other regions of the vast country to quickly prepare for the same as Moscow, to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Andrey Vakhrushev stands at the entrance to his pyramid built on the grounds of his rural house in Istinka village, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Andrey and his wife Victoria built this 9 meters high and 400 tons weigh pyramid as a small copy of the Cheops pyramid in Egypt. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A specialist from a local veterinary service wears a protective suit as sprays disinfectant near Russian tanks displayed at area near Proryv (The Breakthrough) museum dedicated to the breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad during World WarII near Kirovsk, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A woman walks her dogs with Moscow City skyscrapers in the background in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The Russian capital has woken up to a lockdown obliging most people in the city of 13 million to stay home. The government ordered other regions of the vast country to quickly prepare for the same as Moscow, to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A believer and a group of mullahs attend a Friday prayer in the Moscow Cathedral Mosque in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 27, 2020. In a bid to stem the outbreak, Putin declared the next week to be non-working for all Russian except those working in essential sectors. (Photo by Kirill Zykov/Moscow News Agency Photo via AP Photo)





A policeman, foreground right, accompanies a group of migrant laborers, who came to renew work permits, to a migration center in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered most Russians to stay off work until the end of the month as part of a partial industrial shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Specialists of the Veterinary Service of the Leningrad region wearing protective hazmat suits spray disinfectant at a playground in Izvora, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, 04 April 2020. The Russian government has approved legal amendments to increase liability for quarantine violators amid the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





Two police officers patrol an almost empty Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, center, and Spasskaya Tower and the Kremlin Wall, right, at the time when its usually very crowded in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 30, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin says the country has managed to slow down the spread of coronavirus but should be prepared for contagions to quickly grow. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)