President Vladimir Putin said he has a cold and he is not suffering from COVID-19, after he was heard constantly coughing at a televised meeting with officers Do not worry, everything’s fine,”Putin told a videoconference Monday with his Security Council, also shown on state TV.”They do tests virtually on a diurnal base not only for COVID-19 but for all other infections and everything is ok.”
That unannounced broadcast followed an earlier one Putin held with officers to bandy husbandry, in which he was seen and heard coughing on multitudinous occasions Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper house of congress, intruded Putin at the Security Council after that event to ask about his health.”Everyone got upset,”she said.
“I was out in the cool air and moving around laboriously but nothing terrible is passing,”Putin told the Security Council officers.”I know you are all vaccinated and do not forget to get revaccinated,”he said, pertaining to supporter shots against COVID-19.
The Russian chairman, who last week celebrated his 69th birthday, went into tone- insulation last month when he bared that dozens of his staff had been affected by a COVID-19 outbreak. He showed no public sign of illness himself and surfaced after two weeks to hold an in-person meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganSept. 29. Since also, still, he is continued to hold utmost of his public meetings by videoconference.
Nationally, Russia is suffering another swell in COVID-19 cases, with diurnal reported deaths hitting record highs, as officers condemn low vaccination rates for the rise in infections Total deaths in Russia linked to COVID-19 since the epidemic began rose above in August, according to the rearmost yearly assessment by the Federal Statistics Service released late Friday. July and August have been the deadliest months to date, with a aggregate of deaths recorded.