Within China's Hubei province, which has become the epicentre of the outbreak of 2019 coronavirus-nCoV are 140 citizens of Russia, said Last news the press-attache of the Russian Embassy, Georgy Egorov. Egorov has noticed that Among Russian Residents in Hubei no cases of a new type of coronavirus, or those who are placed at risk. at the end of December, Chinese Authorities announced the outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in the densely populated city of Wuhan (Hubei province). Experts have established that the causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV, which is transmitted from person to person. yesterday, scientists at the National center for prevention and disease control of China conducted a sample analysis of the environment and confirmed that the likely source of 2019-nCoV - wholesale market Huangyan to Wuhan. In addition, it is similar to a coronavirus from the body of a bat, living in Zhoushan of Zhejiang province. Among the symptoms - fever, cough, shortness of breath and fever. the number of deaths reached 80 people, the sick are already 274. The virus has spread beyond China, cases of infection were recorded in South Korea, Japan, USA, Thailand, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia and Malaysia. Chinese authorities imposed a ban on sale and transportation of wild animals, as they were likely to be the source of a new disease, most of the city was closed for quarantine. <span style="color:darkgray