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Russian recruits wait for a medical check-up in the recruitment center in St. Petersburg, Russia, 20 May 2020. According to a decree of the Russian President, 135,000 people will be sent to the army during the spring call-up. Amid the pandemic Covid-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, since 20 May 2020 Russian military recruiting offices have begun sending recruits of the spring army call-up to the army, keeping in line with strict sanitary measures. All conscripts are necessarily tested for coronavirus COVID-19 infection, their relatives are not allowed to the sites of the ceremony of taking the military oath by conscripts. All conscripts after arrival to the site of military units deployment will undergo a two-week quarantine. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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