Film director and producer Nikita Mikhalkov reported his health for the first time since hospitalization. He wrote on the Besogon Telegram channel that his treatment continues.
In the post, it was said, “I would like to say that I continued my examinations and the necessary treatments during my stay at the hospital.”
Mikhalkov thanked the fans for their support and kind words.
“Dear friends, I am grateful to everyone and everyone who is worried about me these days! The number of health messages is incredible. Now I know exactly what is the difference between popularity and true love!” – wrote the director.
In addition, Mikhalkov urged to follow the news about his health on his channel, “which is unthinkable, given very little real information. [о нем] in the media and social networks.
Nikita Mikhalkov was hospitalized on January 5 with suspected flu. The Life publication, citing its sources, reported that the director did not go to the doctors for two days after the first symptoms began.
The interlocutors of the broadcast added that the producer “had a 39.9 fever, severe cough and stomach pain” when brought to the hospital.
The Mash Telegram channel reported that Mikhalkov tested positive for COVID-19 and that “complications started due to chronic heart problems.” Officially, representatives of the director did not comment on these rumors. At the same time, according to media reports, without hospitalization Mikhalkov was threatened with an acute heart attack.
RIA Novosti reported that as of January 9, Nikita Mikhalkov remained in intensive care. On the same day, Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reported that Mikhalkov’s coronavirus test was positive.
The Kp.ru site reported that Nikita Mikhalkov may have been infected on December 31, during the farewell to composer Eduard Artemyev (the director had a long working and friendly relationship with him).
Mikhalkov’s health is being monitored by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was announced on January 10 by the press secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.
“What could the reaction be? There can be only one: naturally, the president regularly receives information about his state of health, empathizes and wishes, like all of us, a speedy recovery, ”said the Kremlin spokesman.
On January 6, the Russian Orthodox Church announced that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia would pray for the health of Nikita Mikhalkov.
“His Holiness gave Nikita Sergeevich to the hospital a holy prosphora, from which a particle about his health was removed,” Vladimir Legoyda, head of the synodal department responsible for relations between the church, society and the media, said in a conversation with the RIA. novosti
In 2021, Nikita Mikhalkov announced that he was vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“Where you will hit – God knows, and if so, you need to be vaccinated,” the director said.
Mikhalkov stated in the Besogon program in the spring of 2020 that Microsoft founder Bill Gates wanted to “chip” people in order to “reduce humanity” under the guise of a vaccine.