“Patients with a new coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) are not registered. According to the results of operational monitoring of community-acquired pneumonia in the Russian Federation, there is no excess of the average annual incidence rates, ”the department said.
They noted that at the checkpoints across the Russian border since the beginning of the year, more than 20 thousand flights were inspected, more than 6.7 thousand of them from China.
“More than 50 people were identified with signs of infectious diseases, including more than 20 with respiratory symptoms (11 of them came from China),” the Rospotrebnadzor said.
Earlier, Rostourism recommended suspending the sale of tours in China until the epidemiological situation normalized.
According to the latest data, the number of patients with coronavirus 2019-nCoV in China increased to 1287 people, 41 people died.
And about. Arbi Abubakarov, chairman of the Committee on External Relations of St. Petersburg, commented on the situation with coronavirus in an interview with PolitExpert.