Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that dozens of people around him had contracted the corona virus.
Putin, who is currently in self-isolation according to a message from the Kremlin on Tuesday, said in a video link at a summit of the defense alliance ODKB in the Tajik capital Dushanbe: “You know that unfortunately I was forced to cancel my visit to Dushanbe at the last minute.
I am very sorry about that.
But that has to do with the fact that, as you know, cases of coronavirus disease have occurred in close proximity, not one, not two, but a few dozen people. ”Now he has to remain in self-isolation for“ a few days ”.
Friedrich Schmidt
Political correspondent for Russia and the CIS in Moscow.
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Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said the president would remain in self-isolation for at least a week.
On Tuesday, Putin said that the day before he had exchanged ideas with an employee “in the immediate vicinity” who had refreshed his vaccination “a little late” and fell ill three days later.
Now the "experiment: let's see how Sputnik V works in practice," said Putin, who claims to have been vaccinated with the Russian vaccine.
Furthermore, he has a lot of antibodies, emphasized the president.