Rogozin confirmed COVID 19 the principal designer RSC Energia

General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, confirmed that the Deputy Director General – chief designer of Rocket-space Corporation "Energy" Evgeny Mikrin discovered coronavirus.

"Evgeny Anatolievich Mikrin, I hope, will take the disease quietly ", – said Rogozin in radio station "tvnz".

The head of Roscosmos noted that he recently talked on the phone with a. Mikrin and wished him a speedy recovery.

Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS that coronavirus infection infected including Deputy General Director and General designer of Rocket-space Corporation "Energy" Evgeny Mikrin, he is now in isolation at home, as clinical symptoms of the disease had not.

On Friday, the state Corporation told TASS that the number of people infected in the Russian space Agency coronavirus infection in a few days rose from 30 to 42 people, two employees with confirmed coronavirus has died.