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The 67-year-old president has worked remotely for the past few weeks from his residence in Novo Ogariov, near Moscow. He met with officials in the form of video conferences.
However, on Monday Putin held a meeting with Oleg Beloziorov, CEO of the state railway company Rossiyskiy železnye dorogi, in the Kremlin, his office said.
The spokesman said he did not know whether Putin would return to the Kremlin to work full time.
According to his official agenda, Putin was the last in the Kremlin on May 9, to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Precautions have been taken to protect Putin in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Authorities have been monitoring the body temperatures of officials and journalists at events the president attended since early February.
In early April, when the head of Russia’s main COVID-19 hospital was screened for the infection a few days after meeting with the Russian leader, Putin began working remotely from Novo Ogariov.
The new coronavirus has infected several senior Russian officials, including Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who said after a positive test that he had not come face to face with the president for more than a month.
More than 353 thousand were registered in Russia. cases of coronavirus infection. This is the third largest number in the world. 3,633 deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Russia.
However, the number of new infections registered per day has steadily declined and officials in some parts of the country have begun to ease quarantine measures.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said on Monday that restrictions on domestic tourism are slated to ease as of June 1, but authorities said it is too early to plan holidays abroad.
Current quarantine rules in Moscow, which has become the epicenter of the Russian outbreak, require people to be in their homes until the end of the month.
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