Russian doctor who met Putin last week diagnosed with coronavirus

A medical doctor who gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a visit of Moscow’s most crucial coronavirus hospital closing week said on Tuesday he had himself been identified with the virus.

Putin visited the Kommunarka hospital closing Tuesday where he chatted to the physician, Denis Protsenko. Neither man changed into carrying  protective equipment for the duration of their conversation, TV pictures from the go-to showed.

Protsenko, writing on Facebook stated: “Yes, I have tested fine for coronavirus, however, I feel quite good. I’ve remoted myself in my office. I think the immunity I’ve evolved this month is doing its job.”

The Kremlin stated that Putin became being regularly examined for coronavirus and that “the whole thing is okay,” the RIA news business enterprise reported.

It has previously stated that Putin is being covered from viruses and different illnesses “across the clock”.

Putin donned a hazmat healthy and a respirator at some stage in his visit to the hospital recent week when losing in on patients. But he did no longer have his protective tools on at some point of an assembly with Protsenko, with whom he becomes photographed shaking hands.

The Kremlin reported a coronavirus case in Putin’s management on Friday however, said the individual in question had not come into contact with the president and that each one measure had been being taken to save you the virus from spreading further.

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday granted the government powers to declare a countrywide emergency over the coronavirus and approved penalties for violations of lockdown policies including, in severe cases, prison terms of as much as seven years.