Peskov's wife, Tatyana Navka, is also hospitalized with COVID-19

Olympic champion 45-year-old Tatyana Navka was hospitalized due to coronavirus after her husband, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

-It's true. We are under the supervision of doctors. Everything is fine. In almost two days I came to my senses; everything returned to normal. They say that women tolerate it easier, probably it's true. Dmitry Sergeyevich is also under control, everything is in order with him. We'll be treated," Navka said.

According to the Olympic champion, the whole family was in strict isolation.

Earlier, Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova tested positive for COVID-19.

On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia in China's Wuhan, the causative agent of which is a new type of coronavirus officially named COVID-19.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus a pandemic.