ArmInfo. The RA Ministry of Healthcare stated that Chinese tourists hospitalized inYerevan do not have a coronavirus . This is stated on the official page of the department on Facebook. <We officially refute that patients have the virus . The hospitalized citizens of China do not have any clinical signs inherent in the coronavirus: fever, headache, general weakness, cough. Moreover, as a result of radiography of pneumonia, it was not diagnosed>, the message noted.
To recall, today, two Chinese citizens are hospitalized to a separate isolation ward of the "Nork" Republican Infectious Clinical Hospital in Yerevan due to the fact that one of them had an increase in body temperature up to 37 degrees at the border, as a result of which he was not allowed to cross the border. Due to the situation with the spread of the new type of 2019-nCoV virus in the Celestial Empire, a checkpoint was established at the Bagratashen checkpoint with specialists from the relevant departments, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To note, earlier, Chinese authorities confirmed that a new type of coronavirus can be communicable. Given that 2019-nCoV is distributed primarily by airborne droplets, experts advise wearing protective masks, taking care of personal hygiene and washing your hands often. The number of patients with coronavirus has already exceeded 4.5 thousand people, 106 of them have died. The virus was detected not only in China, but also in the USA, South Korea, Australia, France, Germany, Thailand and Japan.