“The question was whether this outbreak is an emergency of international concern. Our recommendation to the WHO Director-General is not yet time, ”he said following a two-day emergency meeting of the emergency committee.
In late December, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan. It was preliminary established that the causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV, which is transmitted from person to person.
It has spread beyond the PRC; cases of infection have been recorded in South Korea, Japan, the USA, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, a vaccine is being developed in Russia.
The department has strengthened sanitary-quarantine control at all checkpoints on the borders of Russia.