Russian President Vladimir Putin's pokesman Dmitry Peskov said he has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Interfax news agency. He is understood to be receiving treatment at hospital.
He was quoted as saying: "Yes, I am sick. I am receiving treatment."
Mr Peskov said he had last met President Putin in person over a month ago, the TASS news agency reported.
The Kremlin has insisted Mr Putin's health is rigorously protected and that he gets the best medical treatment Russia has to offer.
Mr Putin, who has been working remotely from his residence outside Moscow and holding many meetings via video conference, held a face-to-face meeting earlier on Tuesday with Igor Sechin, the head of oil giant Rosneft.
Mr Peskov is the latest high profile government or Kremlin official to fall ill with the new virus.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told Mr Putin at the end of April he had been diagnosed with the virus and was temporarily stepping down to recover.
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Russia puts the continued daily rise in cases down to widespread testing. It has carried out more than 5.8 million.
It comes after Mr Putin, in a surprise announcement on Monday, said it was time after six weeks to lift nationwide restrictions that had forced many people to work from home and businesses to temporarily close.
Although he gave wide leeway to Russia's regions to ease or tighten restrictions as they saw fit, he said it made sense for certain sectors of the bruised economy such as construction and heavy industry to be allowed to restart work from Tuesday.
He said mass public events would still be banned and Russians aged 65 or over asked to stay at home, even as certain sectors of the bruised economy such as construction and agriculture were allowed to restart work.
Mr Putin said: "All the (coronavirus-related) measures we have taken allow us to move to the next step in the fight against the epidemic and start a phased lifting of the lockdown restrictions."
He said the exercise would need to be done carefully and in full compliance with new higher safety standards.
The Russian leader said: "We must not allow a breakdown, a rollback, a new wave of the epidemic and an increase in serious complications.
"Once again, there will be no rapid lifting of the restrictions. It will take considerable time."
Most Russian regions have been on lockdown since late March in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus
Other countries have yet to update their own tallies, but Russia was likely later on Tuesday to move further up the league table of countries with the highest number of infections.
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