“In the Chinese administrative regions bordering the Russian Federation, 7 cases of the disease were noted,” the Russian Ministry of Health quotes TASS.

It is noted that one lethal outcome of the disease is recorded.

Earlier it was reported that seven citizens of the PRC were suspected of ARVI from a hotel in northern Moscow to an infectious diseases hospital.

On January 25, Presidential Envoy in the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, instructed Rospotrebnadzor, the border service and the heads of regions of the okrug to ensure the safety of border territories in connection with the spread of a new type of coronavirus.