ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Among the 75 people whose portraits gaze out from a makeshift memorial to medical workers who have died of COVID-19 in St. Petersburg since the pandemic began, the youngest is 30-year-old Maria Tyshko.
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Ambulances transporting people suspected of being infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus queue at Saint Petersburg's hospital on April 27, 2020.
