“A Chinese citizen arrived with the group on January 20 from Moscow to St. Petersburg. She felt bad in the evening and went to the first-aid post at the hotel with a temperature of 37.9 and weakness ... An express test showed her “A” flu, ”TASS quoted a spokeswoman.
Earlier, the Health Committee of St. Petersburg reported a third hospitalized suspected of being infected with a new type of coronavirus.
Two men who were hospitalized after arriving at Pulkovo Airport from China were also excluded from the diagnosis of coronavirus.
In late January, it became known about the spread in the Chinese city of Wuhan of an unknown form of pneumonia. Later it turned out that the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia was a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
According to the latest data, the number of people infected in China has reached 617, 17 of them have died.