“In February, the Center for Strategic Planning and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks of the Ministry of Health of Russia will complete the creation of an express test for the detection of a new coronavirus, which is widely discussed in the media today,” he wrote on the Telegram channel.

Earlier it became known that the death toll from a new type of coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, increased to four.

The World Health Organization Emergency Committee intends to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday, January 22, in connection with the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV.