TASS informs about this with reference to his wife, People's Artist of the RSFSR Irina Kupchenko.

“They brought me to the hospital.

They did a CT scan, Vasily Semyonovich was diagnosed with a 5 percent lesion (of the lungs), and he was diagnosed with pneumonia, ”she said.

According to Kupchenko, she was not found to have symptoms, she was allowed to go home, but she decided to stay in the hospital for now to stay with her husband.

“He is being treated very sparingly, harmoniously, every day a blood test will be taken.

He will stay in the hospital for at least 10 days, ”she said.

Earlier it was reported that Vasily Lanovoy and his wife Irina Kupchenko passed positive tests for coronavirus.