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A medic wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus treats a patient with coronavirus at an ICU at a hospital in Poltavskaya village, Krasnodar region, south Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Daily new infections in Russia have been rising sharply for the past two weeks, increasing more than four-fold âÄ” from about 15,000 on Jan. 10 to 67,809 on Tuesday, the highest daily tally in the pandemic. (AP Photo/Vitaliy Timkiv)