PPE art brings a smile to Moscow's Covid patients

With medics and helpers covered in masks, medical glasses and protective suits, it is sometimes hard to convey festive cheer to the patients in Moscow's Covid-19 wards.

But Leonid Krasner, who has been volunteering at a hospital since the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, has found a way with the colourful pictures he draws on the back of his overalls to help patients recognise him and bring a smile to those being treated.

Krasner, 59, decorates his single-use suits before entering the wards every time he is in the hospital. He once drew a cartoonish plane for a sick pilot and...