Putin’s aide infected with Covid-19

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced that the presidential aide Maxim Oreshkin had contracted the coronavirus, Interfax reports

During a meeting on the socio-economic development of Kuzbass, the Prime Minister said that the former Minister of Economic Development was in touch and wished him good health.

Mishustin himself fell ill with COVID-19 last spring. During his illness, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov became his temporary interim.