Sad news. In our country, according to the operational headquarters, several more cases of coronavirus infection have been registered.
Six new cases of Covid-19 infection were registered in Russia. Five people are in Moscow, one in Nizhny Novgorod.
“Over the past 6 hours, XNUMX cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Russia in citizens of the Russian Federation – one case in Nizhny Novgorod, five cases in Moscow. According to the data of the epidemiological investigation, it was established that all citizens have visited the Italian Republic in the last two weeks, ”the headquarters said.
It was also clarified that in Moscow in four patients the disease is mild, one in a state of moderate severity.
The number of people infected worldwide, according to the latest SCMP data, is more than 97 thousand people. 3383 people died, of which 3042 in China.
On March 5, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed a decree on the introduction of a high alert regime due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus infection in the capital.
“To oblige citizens who arrived from the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Italian Republic, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, as well as other states with an unfavorable situation with the spread of a new coronavirus infection (2019- nCoV), <… > provide self-isolation at home for a period of 14 days from the date of return to the Russian Federation, ”the document states.
Sobyanin later said that it was not possible to close the borders completely. “Thousands of people from all over the world fly to Moscow every day. Our city is the main transport hub of the country, through which half of all passengers of air and rail transport pass, “- said the mayor of Moscow.
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