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President Putin's spokesperson tests positive for coronavirus, days after a whitehouse official tested positive.

On Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced news that he had tested positive for coronavirus. He becomes the fifth senior Russian official to test positive for the virus. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says he is hospitalized with the coronavirus. Peskov, a key aide of Russian President Putin, told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday, “Yes, I’ve gotten sick. I’m being treated.” Also infected was Peskov’s wife, Olympic ice dancing champion Tatyana Navka. She told reporters that Peskov’s condition was “satisfactory” and that the couple decided to enter the hospital so as not to expose the rest of their family. “He brought it (the virus) from work,” Navka was quoted as saying by the Daily Storm online outlet. Peskov, 52, has been Putin’s spokesman since 2008, but started working him with in the early 2000s. ALSO READ usa whitehouse millitary attendant test positive for corona virus According to Peskov, he last met Putin face-to-fa...