He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

“We have tightened control at the points of entry into Ukraine to timely identify possible cases of the disease,” Goncharuk said.

He noted that from Sunday, January 26, at the Boryspil airport, all direct passengers from China undergo temperature control.

“Today, our specialists have already met the first flight from China, there were 150 people on it. All are admitted to the territory of Ukraine, ”the prime minister said.

In turn, he said, all animals imported into the country undergo a “mandatory special review by veterinary services”.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Health of the country, called for improving public awareness of coronavirus.

According to the latest data, the number of patients with coronavirus in the PRC increased to 1975 people, 56 fatal outcomes were recorded.

Chinese scientists from the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control found that wild animals became the likely source of the new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV.