“Rospotrebnadzor has strengthened sanitary-quarantine control at all checkpoints on the borders with the Russian Federation, not only on the border with China,” Tass quoted Yezhlov as saying.

Earlier, the PRC Health Committee said that cases of infection with a new type of coronavirus by medical personnel in Wuhan, Hubei Province, confirm the transmission of the infection by airborne droplets and indicate the need for additional preventive measures in hospitals.

According to the latest data, nine people became victims of a new type of coronavirus in China, another 440 are infected.

The doctor, TV presenter Elena Malysheva, in an interview with the FAN, assessed the situation around the coronavirus from China.