A couple from Irkutsk was hospitalized with coronavirus

A new coronavirus was diagnosed in a man from Irkutsk, his wife was also hospitalized. They were on the Diamond Princess in Japan.

“As a result of a test carried out by Japanese doctors, the coronavirus was diagnosed in two more Russian citizens, quotes ” Interfax a message from the Russian Embassy in Japan. “In the near future they will be taken to the hospital, where they will receive the necessary medical care. The Russians feel fine. The course of the disease is without pronounced symptoms.

Citizens feel fine.

Earlier, two more Russians were hospitalized from the Diamond Princess ship. They turned out to be an elderly couple from Irkutsk. The man was confirmed to be infected.

At the end of December 2019, the Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization about an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, a large commercial and industrial center with a population of more than 11 million people. The causative agent of the disease was identified only on January 7 - this is a previously unknown type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

According to the latest data , there are more than 75.7 thousand cases of 2019-nCov infection in the world. More than 2.1 thousand patients died. The vast majority of deaths and infections occur in the Chinese province of Hubei, which contains the city of Wuhan.

Cases of infection have also been recorded in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Germany, Vietnam, France, the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Spain and other countries. In Russia, two cases of the disease were recorded in Chinese citizens, one of them in the Trans-Baikal Territory. Both patients have recovered .