Two Russians are on the cruise ship Diamond Princess off the coast of Japan, where on Wednesday revealed 10 people With a new type of coronavirus, said Last news in the Embassy of the Russian Federation.

Diamond Princess out of Yokohama on January 20, walked the route Kagoshima - Hong Kong - Okinawa and was obliged in the first day of the week to come back. However, it appeared that one passenger, 80-year-old citizen of Hong Kong, which at home, went ashore, was infected with a new type of coronavirus. By Monday, several passengers began to complain of malaise. The Japanese authorities decided to detain the ship at anchor and to conduct a survey of All 3, 7 thousands of passengers and crew members.

on Wednesday it was announced that identified ten cases of a new type of coronavirus. All patients hospitalitynet, patients in crisis is not among them. Japanese authorities have called on other passengers and crew members remain on the ship for another 14 days.

at the end of December, Chinese Authorities announced the outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in the district of Hubei. The causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV.

according to the final data, the number of infected in the world exceeded 24, 3 thousands, died 490.

last week, the Russian government decided to close certain sections of the border With China in the far East, to restrict the crossing of the border With Mongolia, to cancel work visas to Chinese Residents to evacuate from the Hubei province there are citizens of Russia, to stop for a while for regular flights of Russian airlines in China, except for flights of "Aeroflot" in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. From 3 February the Railways stopped train letter With China.



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