Chinese has arrived in Armenia and told NEWS.am Medicine how he was checked at the airport.

According to him, passengers arriving in Armenia from other countries are asked to fill out forms with information about where they came from, for what purpose, and where they will live.

He was also asked at the airport if he had a fever or other symptoms of SARS, such as a cough. He also noted that he did not notice how and when he was measured the temperature - perhaps for this they used some kind of remote apparatus.

According to him, the passengers were also checked at the Shanghai airport: they asked everyone to take off their masks, they measured the temperature with a special sensor, they also had to provide information and say wether they visited Wuhan, which is the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak infections.

There is no panic in China due to this infection, he said adding that nobody forces them to wear masks there, but the government recommends doing this to prevent the spread of infection.

An outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV was recorded in China, which killed at least 170 people and infected more than 7,500.