12 people hospitalized in Turkey, 2 in Russia with suspected coronavirus

January 29, 2020  18:14

With suspicion of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV, 12 people were hospitalized in Turkey - 10 tourists from China and 2 Turkish citizens.

Two people were hospitalized in Russia, they returned from China and had symptoms of SARS.

According to Turkish governor, only one of the Chinese tourists showed symptoms of the disease, but everyone else, including the guide and the bus driver, was isolated as a precaution. 

As for patients in Russia, this is a 55-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man. Doctors performed four tests - one of them will help establish the type of virus that caused ARVI in patients to rule out coronavirus.

There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus either in Turkey or in Russia. The virus has so far been found in China, as well as in the US, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, France, Germany and Vietnam.

Two tourists from China were also isolated in Yerevan. One of them has a fever. According to preliminary data, he has nocoronavirus, but the ARVI. 

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