The minister of defence, Sergey Shoigu, mentioned on March 26 that 16 military hospitals are being erected all over the country and four of them are located in the Far-Eastern region.
Shoigu also pointed that all of the facilities are planned to be finished by May 15. The construction will be separated in two parts: until April 30, hospitals in Odintsovo, Podolsk, Nizhny-Novgorod, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Ulan-Ude and Ussuriisk will be finished, and until May 15, the other 8 facilities will be constructed.
These medical centres will be used in case of unfavourable development of the coronavirus epidemic.