“Today, a student at the Petrozavodsk Conservatory who returned from China was hospitalized with suspected coronavirus infection,” Okhlopokov wrote on his VKontakte page.

The Minister said that the student had a temperature of 37.3, other signs of the disease are absent.

“The patient is in the detention center. The condition is stable, ”he added.

According to him, the student’s test results should be ready tomorrow, February 2, in the evening.

Earlier it became known that in Russia the first two cases of infection with coronavirus were detected, both of them were Chinese citizens.