Arriving from China, a Russian reported symptoms of the virus in his girlfriend

“Now, with the suspicion of the presence of the virus, but with more pronounced symptoms, my girlfriend is in the infectious diseases hospital in Minsk. She returned from China a couple of days earlier, ”the Russian wrote on his page on the VKontakte social network.

It is noted that a check is currently being conducted for the presence of a young man who was delivered on January 22 to the S.P. Infectious Disease Hospital. Botkin, coronavirus.

Earlier it became known that both men hospitalized in St. Petersburg with suspected coronavirus were diagnosed with acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI).

It was also reported that Moscow hospitals worked out an algorithm of actions for suspecting a new coronavirus infection.

According to the State Health Committee of China, the number of patients with a new coronavirus in China increased to 617, of which 17 died.