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The coronavirus continues to gain positions in the Kremlin . This time it was Vladimir Putin's own spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, who announced that he had tested positive. He is currently in a hospital to be treated.

Coronavirus cases have been accumulating in the Putin environment in recent weeks . In the last month, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has also tested positive; the Minister of Works, Vladimir Yakushev; and that of Culture, Olga Lubimova. The deputy head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Kirienko, one of the main 'plumbers' of the president, is also convalescing.

"Yes, I am ill and receiving treatment," Peskov confirmed by phone to the Russian media. There is no reason, they say in the Kremlin, to fear for the health of the president, who is 67 years old and does not step on his official office these days. Putin has been working mainly from an unfamiliar windowless office at his residence on the outskirts of Moscow (a mansion where he has regularly dispatched since 2013) and handling government affairs by videoconference.

When asked about the last time he was in contact with Putin, Peskov replied that they have not seen each other in person for more than a month. According to journalists from the Kremlin group, Peskov was last seen in public on April 30 , during a video conference with the president. Others mention seeing him in early May.

Last month there was concern in the Kremlin about Putin's contacts with people with a positive coronavirus, especially after the infection by a protocol official and when the president visited the main coronavirus hospital in Moscow in late March and gave him the He turned to his chief doctor, who in turn tested positive for Covid-19 days later.

"I BROUGHT IT FROM WORK"

Peskov contagion has reached his family. Peskov's wife is a famous ice skater, Tatiana Navka , who continues to participate in 'shows'. Navka has also been hospitalized. In fact, the whole family is "under strict isolation." "He brought it in from work," Navka said of the virus to the Daily Storm news outlet.

The news comes a day after Putin announced the start of lifting some of the confinement restrictions. Russia today added 10,899 new cases, reaching a total of 232,243 infected and surpassing Spain in the number of infected. The Russian president yesterday declared the end of the "paid non-working period", but in Moscow and other cities the confinement continues.

Dimitri Peskov, 52, is one of Putin's closest collaborators , and has been in the position for nearly two decades. He usually accompanies him on each of his trips and journalists noticed a month ago that he was wearing a strange insignia on his jacket that turned out to be an alleged "virus blocker." Peskov said he did not know if it worked and that he had bought it from a pharmacy. The press investigated on the internet and it turned out to be a device whose only proven effects were side effects. During a visit by Putin to a ward with coronavirus sufferers in March, Peskov was the only person in the President's entourage to wear a face mask.

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