An empty Red Square is pictured on a warm sunny day amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Moscow. (Photos: AFP)

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The Friendship Hotel near Lyublino market, where almost 100 Chinese infected with COVID-19 are quarantined. (Photo: Courtesy of Xu Wenteng)

A Chinese merchant rests on goods in Lyublino market of Moscow in June 2018. (Photo: IC)

The Traditional Chinese Medicine herbs to prevent COVID-19 used by Chinese doctors in Russia. (Photo: Courtesy of Wang Lian)