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Putin dons hazmat suit to visit hospital treating coronavirus patients in Moscow (VIDEO) Putin dons hazmat suit to visit hospital treating coronavirus patients in Moscow (VIDEO)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin traded his usual shirt and tie for a hazmat suit as he visited patients receiving treatment for the Covid-19 virus in a Moscow hospital.Russian President Vladimir Putin traded his usual shirt and tie for a hazmat suit as he visited patients receiving treatment for the Covid-19 virus in a Moscow hospital.
Surrounded by hospital staff, Putin climbed into the yellow hazmat suit and was fitted with a respirator before paying a visit to patients at the treatment center in the Kommunarka area of Moscow.Surrounded by hospital staff, Putin climbed into the yellow hazmat suit and was fitted with a respirator before paying a visit to patients at the treatment center in the Kommunarka area of Moscow.
Putin was also kitted out in a pair of protective plastic boots and blue gloves before heading into the higher-risk area of the hospital. The Russian president was also kitted out in a pair of protective plastic boots and blue gloves before heading into the higher-risk area of the hospital.
Putin was accompanied on the tour of the facility by the hospital's head physician Denis Protsenko. Putin told Protsenko that he was pleased with how the work was progressing and offered his gratitude to the team at the hospital. He said the hospital was well-organized and that people there "know what to do, how to do it, have everything they need and can effectively use existing equipment." Before his trip to the hospital, Putin held a meeting with members of Russia's taskforce for combating the Covid-19 outbreak, which was attended by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Deputy PM Tatyana Golikova and Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
Protsenko recently told journalist Anton Krasovsky for RT Documentary’s ‘Epidemic’ series that if the outbreak in Russia follows the Chinese timeline of events, the situation could “calm down” by May or June – but if it follows the “Italian explosion” it could be September before things improve. It was after that meeting that Putin decided he want to check out the new facility and told colleagues: “Let's go see Kommunarka." 
Before his trip to the hospital, Putin held a meeting with members of Russia's taskforce for combating the Covid-19 outbreak, which was attended by Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, Deputy PM Tatyana Golikova and Health Minister Mikhail Murashko. By the end of this week, it is estimated that 13,000 Covid-19 tests will have been carried out in Moscow. Sobyanin said that Moscow will have 5,000 beds available for coronavirus patients within the next three or four weeks. Putin was accompanied on the tour of the facility by the hospital's head physician Denis Protsenko. Putin told Protsenko that he was pleased with how the work was progressing and offered his gratitude to the team at the hospital.
He said the hospital was well-organized and that people there "know what to do, how to do it, have everything they need and can effectively use existing equipment."
Protsenko told Putin if the outbreak in Russia follows the Chinese timeline of events, the situation could calm down by May or June – but if it follows the “Italian explosion” it could be September before things improve.
By the end of this week, it is estimated that 13,000 Covid-19 tests will have been carried out in Moscow. Sobyanin said that Moscow will have 5,000 beds available for coronavirus patients within the next three or four weeks.
Protsenko told Putin that 70 people had been discharged from the hospital in the last 24 hours with another 29 admitted.
As of March 24, Russia had recorded 495 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no deaths.
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