http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/new-coronavirus-finally-slamming-russia-country-ready > Russian medical experts prepare to check passengers arriving from Italy at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport this month. > For weeks, Russia seemed to have dodged a bullet. As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) raged just across the border in China, Russia was virtually untouched, reporting just seven confirmed infections as recently as 10 March. Since then, the number has risen fast: Russia has now reported 840 infections, about two-thirds of them in the Moscow region.