First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs Dmitry Novikov was hospitalized with coronavirus, RIA Novosti informs.
According to Novikov, he tested positive for COVID-19. The parliamentarian added that the patient zero in the Communist Party was an employee of the party apparatus.
Earlier today it became known that the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Leonid Kalashnikov, has double pneumonia caused by a coronavirus.
