This was reported by the press service of Rospotrebnadzor.

“As a result of monitoring in the Russian Federation, two cases of new coronavirus infection were detected among newcomers of the PRC, no new cases were registered,” RIA Novosti quoted the statement as saying.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that two cases of coronavirus infection have been identified in Russia, both cases are Chinese citizens.

The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, later clarified that close patients in the Tyumen region and Transbaikalia infected with coronavirus did not have an infection.

Expert Viktor Zuev in an interview with the FAN assessed the situation with coronavirus.