It is reported by Sky News with reference to the Minister of Transport of Great Britain Grant Shapps.
“There will be a separate arrival area at Heathrow Airport for passengers arriving directly from areas affected by the virus,” he said.
According to him, the authorities are closely monitoring the development of the situation with this virus and are taking measures to protect the population.
Earlier it was reported that in the Chinese city of Wuhan, dozens of people fell ill with an unknown form of pneumonia. Later it became known that the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia of unknown origin was a new type of coronavirus.
Various states of the world have already taken measures in connection with the appearance of this virus. For example, airports in the United States began to check people arriving from Wuhan for a new type of coronavirus, and the Russian authorities tightened sanitary-quarantine controls at the Russian-Chinese border. Also, the Russian Ministry of Health has begun to create a vaccine against coronavirus.
Along with this, information appeared that the number of victims of this virus increased to nine, the number of infected in the hundreds, and in the United States recorded the first case of infection with it. At the same time, cases of infection of physicians with a new type of coronavirus have been confirmed in China.
Against all of these, Li Bin, the deputy head of the PRC State Committee for Hygiene and Health, announced possible mutations of a new type of coronavirus.
The situation with the virus has already affected the stock markets of Asia.