“From March 4, temporarily until a special order, the train stops on the Moscow-Nice-Moscow route,” the representative of the TASS agency quotes.

It is clarified that such a decision was made "as part of measures to prevent the importation and spread of new coronavirus infection in Russia."

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry called for temporary abandonment of trips to South Korea, Iran and Italy due to the outbreak of coronavirus infection COVID-19 there.

Rostourism also recommended travel agencies to suspend the sale of tours to these countries.

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.