The second Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft dispatched to evacuate Russian citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan has landed in the Tyumen Region with 64 evacuees aboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry’s press service clarified that no people were found to be sick. “According to the military medics’ report, those who arrived from the People’s Republic of China are in satisfactory condition,” the ministry underlined.
All people who were transported to the Tyumen Region will be quarantined for 14 days at a specifically designated temporary accommodation.
Earlier, the first transport jet cleared out 80 people from Wuhan and delivered them to the Tyumen Region, including two foreigners – one from Tajikistan and the other from Armenia. Tyumen Region Governor Alexander Moor told reporters on Tuesday that Russians and citizens of other states will be accommodated in a rehabilitation center with autonomous infrastructure situated 30 km away from the city of Tyumen.
The Russian embassy says 341 Russians are currently staying in the Hubei Province, 183 of them contacted diplomats. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Aerospace Forces to send jets to evacuate them, two aircraft left Wuhan on Tuesday. According to head of the coronavirus prevention headquarters, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, 147 people will be evacuated to Russia, including 10 Belarusian, three Kazakh, one Armenian and one Ukrainian citizen.
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about an outbreak of an unknown pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, a large economic and industrial center in central China populated by 11 million people. On January 7, 2020, Chinese experts identified the infecting agent as coronavirus 2019-nCoV. Apart from China, the virus has spread to 24 more countries, among them are Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam. The WHO has declared China’s coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency.
Currently, the total number of infections has exceeded 24,300 in China and more than 490 people are reported to have died from the disease. Meanwhile, 916 people are said to have recovered from it and more than 185,500 people are being monitored by Chinese doctors.
