“Together with the Moscow Department of Health, an algorithm was developed for the actions of medical personnel in case of suspicion of a new coronavirus infection, monitoring was made of the readiness of medical organizations to receive patients from dysfunctional territories,” the Moscow Office of Rospotrebnadzor said in a statement.
It was also reported that at Vnukovo Airport, a sanitary quarantine inspection of all aircraft arriving from China and Thailand was organized in order to prevent the importation and spread of the new coronavirus.
Earlier, Chinese authorities reported that the death toll from a new type of coronavirus rose to 17.