“Sanitary and epidemiological control on flights from China to Sheremetyevo has been strengthened,” RIA Novosti reports from the airport’s press service.

It is noted that "the sanitary and quarantine point of Rospotrebnadzor at the Sheremetyevo International Airport promptly receives up-to-date information on the situation in epidemiologically unsuccessful countries according to WHO data."

As specified, the specialists of the sanitary-quarantine station carry out remote thermometry of passengers arriving from China using portable and stationary thermal imagers.

Upon detection of a fever in a passenger, the medical team of the airport health center is immediately called on board. If characteristic symptoms of coronavirus infection are detected, the passenger is isolated in a special room and hospitalized in a specialized medical institution (infectious diseases hospital) for additional examination.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian authorities strengthened sanitary-quarantine control at checkpoints on the border with China in connection with the spread of a new coronavirus in China.

It also became known that Rospotrebnadzor has developed tools for laboratory diagnosis of a new coronavirus.