“It was just cool in the air, I moved more actively, it’s nothing bad,” Putin said in a video conference that was shown on state television on Monday evening. “Don’t worry, everything is fine,” he told the chairman of the Russian Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, who was concerned about the coughing president.
It will be tested practically every day, Putin assured – “not only for Covid-19, but also for other infections”. The Kremlin chief had only gone into self-isolation for more than two weeks at the end of September because of several corona cases in his immediate vicinity.
Putin keeps coughing at public appearances – this has been an issue in Russia for a long time. Putin and the Kremlin have always strictly rejected speculations about possible illnesses of the president.
