According to the Cabinet, the headquarters included deputy prime ministers, as well as the heads of the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Health, Rospotrebnadzor, EMERCOM, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

“Also, Rospotrebnadzor was instructed to prepare a plan for the prevention and control of the spread of coronavirus infection within two days,” the government said.

Earlier, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova instructed to conduct in-depth molecular genetic and virological studies of the biomaterial of patients with suspected a new type of coronavirus.

Rostourism also recommended suspending the sale of tours in China.

Academician of the RAMS Dmitry Lvov, editor-in-chief of the journal “Issues of Virology”, director of the State Research Institute of Virology of the RAMS, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today”.