Vladimir Putin is protected from coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel
Moscow:
Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the new coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside of Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled news agency RIA reported on Tuesday.
The special tunnel, made by a Russian company based in the city of Penza, has been installed in its official residence Novo-Ogaryovo outside Moscow where it receives visitors, he added.
Demonstration images of the tunnel, published by RIA, showed that masked people crossing it were sprayed with disinfectant on the ceiling and on the side.
The Russian news agency described the disinfectant as a thin cloud of liquid that covered people’s clothes and all exposed upper body flesh.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in April that anyone who meets Putin in person has been tested for the new virus. A month later, Peskov declared that he himself had been infected.
Russia has registered more than 500,000 infections, the third highest number in the world after Brazil and the United States, which it attributes to an extensive testing program.
Russia has so far recorded 7,284 deaths, less than many other countries. Critics doubt the accuracy of his mortality figures.
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