2 persons, arrived within a week in Petersburg, I suspect acute respiratory viral infection (ARVI), said Last news in the device of the Vice-Governor of the city of Anna Mityanina.

One of them is a citizen of China, another Russia. Last doctors have taken to the Botkin hospital. He ill a temperature of 38, he had sought medical help.

the health Ministry stressed that the patients will take a few days.

first, China started the outbreak of pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus. The first cases were related to the seafood market. According to the final figures, killed 17 people.

The virus has spread beyond China, cases of infection were recorded in South Korea, Japan, USA and Thailand, suspected cases of infection discovered in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. The Chinese authorities officially confirmed that the Virus is transmitted from person to person.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that the risk from the identified in China of the novel coronavirus to the Russian Federation at the moment is minimized, and at all border crossing points reinforced sanitary-quarantine supervision.

"We have our own test system, We have developed a... We are currently working, can diagnose ", she added.

Popov added that it was designed with the special training advice for health-care workers under a situation in disinfection, in this case - and on vehicles.

in addition, Russia has already started to create a vaccine against the coronavirus.



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