“Lev Valeryanovich’s condition has improved ... Today he does not need high oxygen support, so the course of the disease allows us to hope for a favorable end and a good outcome,” RIA Novosti quoted Murashko as saying.

Earlier it was reported that the singer Lev Leshchenko and his wife were hospitalized in a medical center in the Moscow village of Kommunarka, where they passed tests for coronavirus infection COVID-19.

Later it became known that Leshchenko, who was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, was transferred to intensive care for a planned procedure.

On March 11, WHO announced an outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic. Currently, more than 460 thousand infected in the world, over 21 thousand people have died.