Russia's foreign intelligence agency is providing “health monitoring” for veteran double agent George Blake as the country is gripped by coronavirus.
The 97-year-old Brit traitor is in self-isolation listening to his favourite classical music with his wife Ida at his country home near Moscow.
Blake, now visually impaired, is Britain’s longest fugitive from justice, having escaped from Wormwood Scrubs where he was serving a 42-year sentence soon after England won the World Cup in 1966.
He was convicted of passing a mass of secrets from MI6 to his Soviet spymasters during the Cold War, leading to dozens of Western informers being shot, according to reports.