“With regard to aviation communications, we agreed that within two days the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will assess the situation by the number of our citizens who are returning to Russia, and after that a decision will be made on the regime of flights from China and China,” TASS quoted her the words.

She noted that five regions of Russia in the Far East will extend the regime of closing checkpoints on the borders with China in order to prevent the risk of the spread of coronavirus.

Golikova also said that Russia will suspend rail links with China, except for the Moscow-Beijing train, due to the spread of the new coronavirus.