The first death from a new coronavirus is registered in Beijing

This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the city committee on health.

It is noted that the 50-year-old man turned out to be dead, who went to Wuhan on January 8, and on January 15, his temperature rose in Beijing.

On January 21, the patient went to the hospital, and the next day his diagnosis was confirmed.

Earlier it was reported that the Chinese authorities in 2020 will direct 60.33 billion yuan ($ 8.75 billion) to combat new type of pneumonia.

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”.