“On Friday, January 31, the Operational Headquarters decided to conduct a daily medical examination of students in dormitories of Moscow higher educational institutions,” RIA Novosti quoted the deputy mayor of Moscow on social development issues, Anastasia Rakova.
Earlier, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia ordered university rectors to extend their students from China vacation until March 2.
State Duma deputy, former chief medical officer of Russia Gennady Onishchenko commented on the decision of the World Health Organization (WHO) to recognize the outbreak of a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV as an emergency of international proportions.