Mishustin approved the membership of the headquarters for the fight against the novel coronavirus
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, has approved the composition of the operational headquarters for the prevention of importation into the Russian Federation and the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, has approved the composition of the operational headquarters for the prevention of importation into the Russian Federation and the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The relevant document posted on the Internet representation of the government.
The President appointed Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, responsible in the new Cabinet for social issues.
the headquarters also includes the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, Deputy interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy, head of the Federal Service for veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance Sergey Dankvert, the head of the Ministry of emergency situations Evgeny Senichev, Deputy chief of staff of the government Leonid Levin, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs Igor Morgulov, the Deputy Director of the foreign intelligence Service Andrew Sailors, the Minister of health Michael Murashko and the General Director "Aeroflot" Vitaly Saveliev.
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.
currently, the number of confirmed infection cases have reached 5999 people (even 9239 under suspicion), 132 died, 104 were cured.
The most difficult situation is in China, but cases have similarly in South Korea, Japan, USA, Thailand, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Germany.
The virus is transmitted by airborne droplets from a distance of one to two meters, and a contact method - through touching dirty hands to the eyes.
The main symptoms - dry cough, shortness of breath, until respiratory failure, fever, weakness. In some cases, the disease is no pneumonia, only accompanied by a rare dry cough and low temperature, but even with mild symptoms, the patient may infect others.
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