Russian tour operators stopped receiving groups from China

Yuri Barzykin, Vice President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT), said that tour operators temporarily stopped accepting groups of tourists from China.

The decision was made to prevent the spread of a new type of coronavirus, and the measures will be extended "until the situation normalizes," around the end of February.

At the end of 2019, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in the densely populated city of Wuhan (Hubei province). The causative agent of the disease is a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV, it is transmitted from person to person.

Scientists of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China consider a possible source of 2019-nCoV – the Huanan wholesale market in Wuhan. It also resembles a coronavirus from the body of a bat living in the city of Zhoushan (Zhejiang province).

Symptoms - fever, cough, shortness of breath and fever. As of January 29, the number of deaths was 106 people, more than 4.5 thousand fell ill.

The virus has gone beyond China, cases of infection recorded in South Korea, Japan, the United States, Thailand, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Germany.
China banned the sale and transport of wild animals because they could be a source of disease.

Source: ria