© Reuters/SPUTNIK Russian President Vladimir Putin and athletes, participants of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games, attend a meeting in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on Thursday he would must spend "a number of days" in self-isolation after dozens of americans in his entourage fell sick with COVID-19, the TASS information agency suggested.
Putin become speaking via a video link at a summit of a Russia-led security bloc which became held in Tajikistan. He had deliberate to attend in adult before the information of the virus outbreak in his inner circle this week.
It was in the past doubtful how big the outbreak became and the way lengthy Putin would remain remoted.
"here's now not just one adult or two americans, there are dozens of people," he noted.
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"And now I must stay in self-isolation for a number of days."
Putin, sixty eight, who has had two pictures of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, stated this week he become now in my opinion checking out its effectivity while the Kremlin noted the president himself changed into fit.
The Kremlin has had a rigorous regime in vicinity designed to retain Putin away from any person with COVID-19.
Kremlin visitors have needed to pass via particular disinfection tunnels, journalists attending his routine should bear dissimilar PCR tests, and a few americans he meets are asked to quarantine previously and be tested.
(Reporting with the aid of Maxim Rodionov; Writing through Olzhas Auyezov; enhancing by using Toby Chopra and Raissa Kasolowsky)
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