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May 12, 2020 Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. Ria Novosti told the news agency that he was hospitalized.

Russia has recorded 10,899 new cases of Covid-19, updating the total number of infections nationally to 232,243 and jumping to second place in the world after the United States among the most affected countries, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

With an increase of over 10 thousand cases for the tenth consecutive day, the Federation has overtaken Spain and Great Britain in the number of infections. The bulletin was updated by the operations center for emergency management, according to which 107 deaths in the last 24 hours, of which 55 were only in Moscow, for a total of 2,116.