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Russian Prime Minister Mishustin said Thursday that he had been screened for COVID-19 coronavirus infection and would be isolated to protect other cabinet members.
“I just found out that my coronavirus test is positive,” Michustin, 54, said in a video conference with President Vladimir Putin.
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The Prime Minister hinted that he would be replaced by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov during the period of self-isolation.
Alexei Venediktov, editor in chief of Echo Moskvy radio, announced on the Telegram correspondence channel, citing sources, that M. Michustin’s temperature is 39 ° C. Despite rumors of a temperature, the Prime Minister told him He told President Vladimir Putin that he planned to actively participate in preparing cabinet decisions at a distance.
Mishustin spokesman Boris Belyakov said the prime minister had been hospitalized, Medusa reported.
A source close to the federal government told the portal that Mishustin is unlikely to return to the post of prime minister. The source noted that Putin had signed a separate order to appoint Andrey Belousov as interim prime minister, although Article 8 of the Constitution does not require any additional documents when one of the deputy prime ministers temporarily replaces the prime minister.
It is said that only an order from the President is required to appoint a Deputy Prime Minister as Acting Prime Minister for a period of up to two months when the Cabinet of Ministers is dissolved.
Photo by Scanpix / ITAR-TASS / Mikhail Mishustin
So far, the Russian president has not appointed a deputy prime minister as acting prime minister in cases where the head of government has gone on vacation or becomes ill.
According to a Medusa source close to the Putin administration, when Mišustin recovers from COVID-19, he is likely to assume other responsibilities in government.
“As a former tax specialist and someone who knows financial flows, he was appointed for a completely different reason: to control spending on national projects when there was still money.
Now the circumstances are completely different: the economy is completely different, it needs a quick recovery from the pandemic. This is not an area of Mishustin at all. He made no mistakes. “Now is not the time,” said a source in Meduzai.
Another source in the government confirmed to the portal that Mišustinas will return to the post of Prime Minister.
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