It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“The first case of coronavirus was reported in the UAE. The patient’s health is stable, the sick person is under medical supervision, ”the department said.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health did not specify where and from whom the virus was detected.
In late January, it became known that in the Chinese city of Wuhan, dozens of people fell ill with an unknown form of pneumonia. It was later reported that a new type of coronavirus was the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia.
Various states have already taken measures in connection with the appearance of this disease. For example, airports in the United States, Great Britain, Russia and several other countries began to check arriving passengers for a new type of coronavirus, but 2019-nCoV continues to spread throughout the world. Patients were recorded already in the USA, Singapore, Vietnam, Germany, France and other states.
According to the latest official data, only in China the number of infected reached 5974, and 132 people died from the virus.
Academician of the RAMS Dmitry Lvov, editor-in-chief of the journal “Issues of Virology” and director of the Research Institute of Virology of the RAMS, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today”.
Details are in the material RT.