The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that Putin was a “contact person” but was “in excellent health” himself. The Russian president could not personally attend a summit in Tajikistan due to the quarantine.
Putin did a corona test, said government spokesman Dmitri Peskov, without giving the result. The president claims to have been vaccinated against the corona virus.
The current corona wave triggered by the highly contagious Delta virus variant hits Russia particularly hard, especially since the willingness to vaccinate is low in the huge country. Even Putin’s appeals to be immunized have not demonstrably increased willingness to vaccinate.