They noted that the man was taken to the Botkin hospital.
“He arrived on a flight from Shanghai with suspicion of SARS, further conclusions can be made based on the results of the analysis,” the apparatus said.
In late December, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan. It was preliminary established that the causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV, which is transmitted from person to person.
It has already spread beyond China; cases of infection have been reported in South Korea, Japan, the United States and Thailand.
According to the latest data, the death toll from a new type of coronavirus has increased to 17, and more than 400 are infected.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that a vaccine is being developed in Russia. The agency has strengthened sanitary-quarantine control at all checkpoints on Russian borders.