The first citizen of Russia was infected with coronavirus

A month and a half after the start of the coronavirus epidemic in China, the infection of the first citizen of Russia is confirmed. This happened on the Diamond Princess cruise liner, where there are already 454 a new type of 3.7 thousand passengers and crew members on it.

The case of infection of the Russians reported the Russian Embassy in Tokyo on its Facebook.

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Yesterday, the embassy reported that none of the Russians on the ship was revealed Koronavirus. In total, 24 citizens of Russia on board.

The embassy said that "there were no appeals from the Russians with a request for evacuation from the vessel." “At present, we proceed from the fact that our citizens continue to remain on the liner until the quarantine is completed, that is, approximately until February 19,” the embassy reported.

At the same time, several countries (Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong, Italy and Australia) said they began to evacuate citizens who have not been revealed coronavirus.

• The Diamond Princess liner went from the Japanese city of Yokoham to a two -week cruise (January 20 - February 4) along the route of Kagosim - Hong Kong - Okinava. But it turned out that one of the passengers who went ashore in Hong Kong was infected with coronavirus. Since February 3, a cruise vessel has been in the port of Yokogama on a 14-day quarantine, all passengers are checked. Only for today a new type of new type of 99 people on the ship became infected.
• To date, in China, the number of pneumonia caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus exceeded 70 thousand people, about 1.8 thousand people died, the State Committee for Healthcare of the PRC said. Over the past day alone, the number of infected has increased by almost 2 thousand people, deaths by 105.