This is reported by Interfax, citing data from the State Committee on Hygiene and Health of the People's Republic of China.

Over the past day, there have been no deaths in China.

It is clarified that eight cases inside the country were detected in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the PRC.

Earlier, Doctor of Medical Sciences Gennady Onishchenko, a State Duma deputy, former chief state sanitary doctor of Russia, in an interview with RT, assessed reports of the spread of the SFTS virus in China.