COVID-19: Millionaire, Lukoil owner urgently taken to hospital
Owner of Russia's oil company Lukoil Leonid Fedun, 64, was hospitalized with the coronavirus.
Co-owner of
Russia's oil company Lukoil Leonid Fedun, 64, was hospitalized with the
coronavirus, football club Spartak, which Fedun also owns, said on the official
website.
"Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun, chairman of the board of directors of football
club Spartak-Moscow, was diagnosed with the coronavirus infection. He is being
treated at hospital. The club wishes Leonid Arnoldovich well," the Prime
news agency cited the statement as saying.
Currently, he is under medical supervision in one of the medical institutions. His condition is not specified in the message.
As the new coronavirus that has killed more than 265,000 people worldwide continues to spread, Russia has stepped up its measures to slow the pandemic's spread within its borders.
There have been 177,160 cases of coronavirus infections reported in Russia so far and 1,625 deaths.