MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on May 12 he had tested positive for the CCP virus, commonly called the novel coronavirus, as a new surge in infections gave Russia the third-highest number of reported cases in the world after the United States.
Peskov, the fifth senior official to contract the virus, said he had last met Putin in person more than a month ago, the TASS news agency reported. Tatyana Navka, Peskov’s wife, said on Instagram that she also had the virus.
