Coronavirus – Vladimir Putin demands round-the-clock protection and insists staff continually tested for killer bug – The Sun
VLADIMIR Putin is avoiding coronavirus contamination by forcing his staff to undergo mandatory testing around the clock.
The Kremlin said that all workers who are involved with the president’s events schedule are being tested for the disease.
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According to Reuters, the Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, told reporters yesterday: “Everything needed to protect the president from viruses and other illnesses is being done around the clock.
“The president's work schedule is public and the best proof of the state of his health.”
Peskov had previously declined to say whether Putin had been tested for the deadly virus but said that the president’s medical care is of an exceptionally high standard.
But the spokesman himself said that he had been tested for COVID-19 along with all high-ranking Kremlin officials.
On Wednesday Putin was visiting Crimea which Russia had annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Journalists who had been travelling with Putin were tested before the work began to prove that they were not already infected.
The Kremlin had also informed journalists to stay away if they felt unwell.
Russia has recorded 147 cases of coronavirus so far with only one death.
Russian authorities has barred foreigners from entering the country in an effort to prevent the virus from spreading further.
Yesterday Putin claimed that coronavirus outbreak was "under control" in Russia.
In the last number of days Russia has been accused of deploying a "significant disinformation campaign" against the west to worsen the impact of coronavirus to generate panic and sow distrust.
According to a European Union document, the Russian campaign, pushing fake news online in English, Spanish, Italian, German and French, used confusing and malicious reports to make it harder for the EU to communicate its response to the pandemic.
A specialist EU database has recorded almost 80 cases of disinformation about coronavirus since January 22, it said.
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