“We are in the initial stages of the epidemic. It must be admitted that this is obvious ... Our medical services are resisting the growing epidemic, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
At the same time, the French leader emphasized that the country was well prepared for this and provided for all possible scenarios.
“We have competent medical specialists who are mobilized before this crisis,” Macron said.
Earlier it became known that the Minister of Culture of France, Frank Riester, was diagnosed with coronavirus infection COVID-19.
On February 24, the World Health Organization announced that the situation with COVID-19 is about an “epidemic in various parts of the world,” although the coronavirus infection “has the potential for a pandemic.”
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.