Russian Construction Minister, Vladimir Yakushev, has gone to hospital with Coronavirus, just a day after the Prime Minister did so.
The Construction Minister’s deputy was also infected, Russian media said.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin that he had the virus.
President Putin is now ruling via videoconference from a residence just outside Moscow.
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In the past 24 hours, 9,623 more people tested positive for COVID-19 in Russia, more than half of them in Moscow.
The infections have been growing daily and the Russian death toll now stands at 1,222.
