19 April 2024,   08:56
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Vladimer Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov hospitalized with coronavirus

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been hospitalized with coronavirus, he told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. “Yes, I got sick, I’m being treated”, - Peskov was quoted as saying.


The Kremlin spokesman is at least the second person in Putin’s administration and the fifth senior government official to test positive for Covid-19. In addition to Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova, Construction Minister Vladimir Yakushev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Putin’s first deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko was reported to have tested positive in mid-April.


It was not immediately clear when Peskov, 52, last met Putin, 67, in person.

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