This is stated in the order of the government.

It is specified that the Chinese side must be notified that this measure is justified by special circumstances and is temporary.

Earlier, Russian and Chinese foreign ministers Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi discussed the interaction of the two states in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection.

On January 30, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adan Gebreisus, said that WHO had recognized the outbreak of coronavirus 2019-nCoV in China as an emergency of international importance.

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Microbiology of Latent Infections, Virologist of the Institute named after Gamalei Viktor Zuev assessed the situation with coronavirus in an interview with the FAN.