Retailers erect monument to couriers who fed Moscow through lockdown

People walk past a monument honouring delivery couriers who continued to work throughout the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), helping people cope with the stringent self-isolation regime, in Moscow, Russia July 3, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Doctors and nurses have won praise for their efforts to contain Moscow's coronavirus crisis, but a monument unveiled on Friday celebrates different frontline workers: delivery men and women.

Designed by artist Alexei Garikovich, it is around three metres tall and features the form of a standing man hollowed out from a thick sheet of rusting metal. Its inscription reads: "Dedicated to those who made self-isolation possible."