Vladimir Putin visited the information centre monitoring the situation around the coronavirus in Moscow, Russia and abroad.
The President was accompanied by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
The centre was established to collect and analyse information about the developments regarding coronavirus. Its task is to coordinate the federal and regional government bodies on measures taken to fight the virus.
The centre processes and analyses posts on social networks, confirms their credibility or unreliability and gathers official information about the spreading of coronavirus in the world.