the head of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov (Communist party) was in the hospital with pneumonia caused by coronavirus infection. In conversation with “MK” he said that he got it from his driver, in his Duma office conducted disinfection, and wife and staff of the Committee on quarantine.
This is the first received confirmation of a case of infection of coronavirus infection in a DePuy corps. Learned about it from journalists the leader of LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who on 25 April in honour of his birthday was spent online communicating with young people. He later Mr. Kalashnikov, who for a few days in the hospital, but will answer the call, told the “MK” how it all happened: “when a few days ago it became known that ill my driver, and the analysis confirmed that he had the coronavirus, I notice colleagues are stuck in quarantine, meetings not held in plenary on 17 April and in other activities did not participate”. When, according to the Deputy, he has “a little fever”, and the CT showed inflammation of the lungs, the doctors put him in hospital where he is now. “Feel well, breathing without the ventilator,” – said in a conversation with “MK” Mr. Kalashnikov. The wife of the Deputy, he said, since last Thursday is also “quarantined, in the office in the state Duma held disinfection, and all staff passed the tests”. “I really hope that no one else gets sick,” said Mr. Kalashnikov.
it is Worth noting that in the plenary hall it was the last time before the disease was present on April 14. The Deputy was wearing a mask and gloves. Online in the solemn meeting devoted to the 150 anniversary from the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, and in laying flowers at the mausoleum on April 22 (this event was attended by Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov) the head of the Committee for CIS Affairs was not involved.
“the state Duma has already taken all necessary measures to prevent the spread of infection,” – said the “MK” a source in the office of the lower house of Parliament. According to him, and so personal contacts of MPs, their assistants and staff are minimized, and the use of online formats.” For more than a month in the building at Okhotny Ryad closed snack bars and canteens, cancelled all trips, journalists working remotely, part of the staff too. In the plenary hall disabled air – conditioners to minimize the risk of virus spread by air. Generally, plenary sessions, if everything goes normally, now not scheduled until may 12. Many MPs in touch with constituents from Moscow, but some went to their native regions. So some Communists, as, for example, Chicken Alex (Communist party) found out�� about the disease, colleagues in the faction from journalists.
“we are All in God’s hands”, – has commented to Agency “Interfax” unpleasant news, the Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov.
meanwhile, a source familiar with the situation told “MK” that the suspected coronavirus were hospitalized on the eve of another Communist – Dmitry Novikov, the Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee, first Deputy head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs. Confirmation of this information could not be obtained, and the phone Mr. Novikov in the morning of 25 April is not responsible. April 22 to visit the Lenin Mausoleum together with the leadership of the party Deputy Gennady Zyuganov’s party did not participate: one of the former on the red square of the Communists confirmed this “MK”, saying that “the reasons for the absence does not know.”
