Russian doctor who met Putin last week diagnosed with coronavirus

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A doctor who gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a tour of Moscow's main coronavirus hospital last week has himself been diagnosed with the virus, Reuters reported while quoting the Rossiya 24 state TV channel.

Putin visited the Kommunarka hospital last Tuesday where he chatted to the doctor, Denis Protsenko. Neither of them were wearing protective equipment during their conversation, TV footage from the visit showed.

The Kremlin has said that Putin was being regularly tested for coronavirus and that “everything is okay,” the RIA news agency reported.

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