"We have had more than a third of the deputies who have been ill ... Today, one of our colleagues is in a very serious condition in intensive care," TASS quotes Volodin.

He recalled that two parliamentarians had already died because of the disease.

In December, after a coronavirus disease, State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valentin Shurchanov died, he was seriously ill for three weeks.

Also, due to the consequences of the infection, a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vakha Agayev, who served as deputy chairman of the committee for the financial market, died in September.