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Kremlin spokesman confirms Macron refused to take PCR test before talks
At the same time, Peskov did not specify whether Moscow provides foreign counterparts with similar data on President Putin’s PCR test
MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron refused to take a PCR test for COVID-19 from Russian medics before talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on February 7.
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Reuters quoted sources as saying that Macron was separated by a long table at the Kremlin-hosted talks with Putin after he refused to submit to a PCR test in Russia. One of the French president's entourage explained to the agency that Paris "knew very well that it [the refusal to take a PCR test] would mean no handshakes and that long table, but could not accept the fact that they would get their hands on the president's (Macron's - TASS) DNA."...
Kremlin spokesman confirms Macron refused to take PCR test before talks
At the same time, Peskov did not specify whether Moscow provides foreign counterparts with similar data on President Putin’s PCR test
MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron refused to take a PCR test for COVID-19 from Russian medics before talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on February 7.
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Reuters quoted sources as saying that Macron was separated by a long table at the Kremlin-hosted talks with Putin after he refused to submit to a PCR test in Russia. One of the French president's entourage explained to the agency that Paris "knew very well that it [the refusal to take a PCR test] would mean no handshakes and that long table, but could not accept the fact that they would get their hands on the president's (Macron's - TASS) DNA."...