State Duma Deputy from the Communist party faction, first Deputy head of Committee on international Affairs Dmitry Novikov was infected by a coronavirus and was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia. This was the politician told TASS on Saturday.
"are Treated. Yes, confirmed coronavirus… Bilateral viral pneumonia. High temperature is not a particularly", – said Novikov.
Hospitalized the second Deputy of the state Duma from the Communist party
According to him, coronavirus infection revealed the test, and conducted computer tomography of lungs.
The Deputy added that he did not know from whom could be infected.
"No idea. Contact was a lot different," he said.
Previously, their hospital admissions coronavirus TASS said another MP from the Communist party, head of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov. In his opinion, he caught it from his driver.
At the ceremony of laying flowers to the Lenin mausoleum on 22 April, which was attended by the leadership of the faction led by Gennady Zyuganov, and there was no Kalashnikov, and Novikov, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee, Deputy Yuri Afonin. According to him, the two deputies at the last attended session of the state Duma on April 14.
