From February 20, Russia will temporarily stop the passage of Chinese citizens across the state border. The corresponding decision was reported by the operational headquarters to prevent the importation and spread of new coronavirus infection in Russia.
The order concerns citizens of China entering the territory of Russia "for the purpose of carrying out labor activities, for private, educational and tourist purposes," the report said.
Along with this, the acceptance of documents, registration and issuance of entry invitations for Chinese citizens who intend to arrive in Russia for work are suspended. Similar measures apply to permits to attract and use foreign workers and work permits to these citizens located outside the territory of the Russian Federation.
In addition, from February 19, the reception of documents, registration and issuance of invitations for Chinese residents to enter Russia for private and educational purposes are temporarily stopped.
It is noted that these restrictions will not affect transit passengers.
The condition of Russians evacuated from China
Shortly before that, it became known that the quarantined COVID-2019 was not detected in quarantined people in Tyumen, the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor said in a statement. We are talking about the Russians and CIS citizens evacuated from China in early February.
“The Tyumen Research Institute provided the results of the analysis, all negative,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the head of the department of Rospotrebnadzor in the Tyumen region Galina Sharuho.
Soon after, it became known that the doctors received the results from the second center, which also took samples for analysis.
“The latest results of repeated tests for coronavirus infection from the Novosibirsk Scientific Center“ Vector ”came. All those evacuated from China to Tyumen are healthy, ”said Inna Kulikova, head of the regional health department.
On the eve it was reported that in case of a negative result of the research, the sanitary doctor will sign a decree on the end of quarantine. According to Kulikova, this can happen on Wednesday, February 19th.
The head of the department specified that upon discharge from the quarantine center, people will receive back outerwear, which they processed with hot steam and put them in signed packages.
Recall that on February 5, Russian aerospace forces successfully evacuated compatriots from the Chinese province of Hubei, which became the epicenter of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-2019. The Russian Embassy in China specified that 144 people were sent to the Tyumen region. Among them, 128 Russians and 16 citizens of the CIS who turned to Russian diplomats.
An outbreak of a new type of coronavirus was reported by Chinese authorities in late December 2019. The World Health Organization recognized the spread of the new disease as a situation of international importance and assigned the virus the designation COVID-2019.
According to the latest data, more than 72.4 thousand infected have been recorded in mainland China, more than 1.8 thousand people have died. According to WHO, almost 800 cases of COVID-2019 were reported outside of China, in three cases the infected died.
In Russia, two cases of infection were detected. Both patients subsequently recovered.
Meanwhile, the WHO said they did not have data on the transmission of COVID-2019 from person to person. An exception is the situation on the Diamond Princess quarantined airliner.
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“We have not yet seen a steady local transfer, with the exception of special conditions, like on a Diamond Princess cruise ship,” RIA Novosti quoted the statement by WHO Director-General Tedros Adanom Gebreyesus.
Since February 5, Diamond Princess liner has been quarantined in the Japanese port of Yokohama. Out of nearly 3,700 passengers on board, at least 540 have coronavirus.
Two of those infected on the Diamond Princess liner are Russians. On February 18, the Russian Embassy announced the second case of infection among Russian citizens on board. According to diplomats, the virus was found in the spouse of a Russian woman who was suspected of having COVID-2019 as of February 17.
“He is in a specialized medical facility in Aichi Prefecture. The course of the disease without symptoms, it feels normal. Given his high risk of infection, his wife was hospitalized in one of the hospitals in Kanagawa Prefecture, ”the diplomatic mission said on Facebook. It is noted that the wife of an infected man, according to available information, is not infected.
Previously, the virus was detected in a Russian citizen. The embassy explained that the woman did not apply for evacuation.
We add that one of the passengers of Diamond Princess previously told RT about the situation on the ship. According to Sergey Popov, a dentist from Omsk, people still remain in the cabins, they have the opportunity to go on deck for an hour's walk.
As the Russian said, the liner’s staff is trying to diversify the leisure of quarantined people and provides moral support to guests who feel psychological discomfort. Quarantine on a ship is expected to cease to operate on the morning of February 19.
The Russian Ministry of Health said that Russian citizens who were suspected of being infected with the coronavirus on the Diamond Princess ship are being given assistance. The head of the department, Mikhail Murashko, noted that we are not talking about serious patients. According to him, the question of evacuating Russian citizens is not yet raised, they should be placed in a hospital.