Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on closing the border in the far East in the form of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. He told about it at meeting of the government, the document has not been posted. Details until not given. In the far East, Russia is bordered by China, Japan, Korea and the United States. currently, the number of victims of the new disease grew to 170 people infected - 7711. In Russia officially is not a single case was not registered. Mishustin also ordered the Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova every day to inform the public about the current situation and preventive measures. Yesterday Golikova has headed the relevant operational headquarters. 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. Infections, excluding China, recorded in South Korea, Japan, USA, Thailand, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Germany and several other countries. 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. Sometimes the disease is no pneumonia, only accompanied by a rare dry cough and low temperature, but even with mild symptoms a person can infect others. <span style="color:darkgray