Russia's coronavirus crisis deepened on Monday as the country reported a record 22,778 new daily cases, more than 6000 of which were in the capital.

The cry Let's Go Ice Palace, known for hosting international speed skating competitions, is now on the front line after its repurpose ing last month.

Andre Skoda is the head doctor at the hospital that but it's a permanent hospital because it has everything a modern clinic needs for treating and diagnosing patients.

It has a fully equipped, fully staffed admissions department.

It has ALS, the diagnostic equipment, even a CT scanner.

With the help of the Moscow government.

We made everything digital.

It's a paperless hospital.

The 400 m speedskating track is now occupied by more than 1300 hospital beds equipped with oxygen tanks on more than 100 doctors and nurses tending to patients.

Despite the recent surge in cases, Russian authorities have resisted imposing locked down restrictions across the country, as they did earlier this year.

Instead, they've been stressing the importance of hygiene, social distancing and imposing targeted measures in certain regions.

Russia is now approaching two million infections.

Since the start off, the pandemic has the fifth largest number of cases in the world, behind the United States, India, Brazil and France.