The president of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnijanov, and the head of the Russian Federal Consumer and Welfare Service, known as Rospatrebnadzor, Anna Popova, visited the health center where the evacuees are located, five of them of this region.
The spokeswoman for the top Tatar leader, Lilia Galimova, explained that among the patients there are three Russians, who were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, when they were aboard the aforementioned cruise ship, where more than 650 cases were registered.
Other Russian passengers refused to be transferred on a flight from Tokyo to Kazan with an AN-148 aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The eight crew members and six members of the operating group that accompanied the evacuees had special protective suits.
In the case of the three infected, their status is stable. The disease was detected by tests done during their stay on the cruise, where three thousand 500 people were traveling, medical sources said, cited by the capital television.
The Russian Deputy Prime Minister for the social bloc, Tatiana Golikova, previously announced the evacuation of citizens after the end of a quarantine of more than 130 people who were located in a health center in Tyumen.
A health center in the aforementioned Siberian province served as the basis for the quarantine of Russian citizens and other ex-Soviet republics such as Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan transferred there from Wuhan, Chinese province of Hubei, epicenter of Covid-19 .
At least two thousand 340 people died in China among over 76 thousand 400 infested, while doctors in that Asian country managed to cure 20 thousand 659 patients.
After the explosion of the new coronavirus epidemic, the government formed a staff, led by Golikova, to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in this nation.
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