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Siberians fight the pandemic by giving weary doctors a lift

by Yulia Alexeyeva
| December 9, 2020 9:06 AM

IRKUTSK, Russia (AP) — As coronavirus resurged across Russia this fall, one of the most common complaints from people with symptoms who were self-isolating at home was that they had to wait hours or sometimes days before a visiting doctor would arrive to check on them.

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