This is stated in a message posted on the Washington Department of Health's Twitter page.
Earlier, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus said that WHO estimates the risk of spreading a new type of coronavirus as very high.
The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.