Argento said she has mentioned about the assault at length in her upcoming autobiography, Anatomy of a Wild Heart, which is due to be released in Italy later this month.
As per the Rosstat statistics agency's report, Russia's COVID-19 death toll is around 186,000, making it the third-worst hit country in the world after the US and Brazil.
As Donald Trump remained mum on the alleged Russian-backed cyberattacks that compromised national security, Republican and Democrat senators have called retaliation.