“I recommend that residents of the Penza region refrain from visiting the PRC, as well as from countries in Southeast Asia,” the website of the regional government said in a statement.
The governor specified that it is necessary to carry out explanatory work with travel agencies.
He also commissioned a survey of people arriving from China.
Earlier, both men hospitalized in St. Petersburg with suspected coronavirus were diagnosed with acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI).
On January 23, the governor of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov, in connection with the spread in China of a new type of coronavirus, of which 17 people have already died, urged local residents to temporarily abandon trips to the PRC.