MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th January, 2020) There are no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Russia as of Saturday night, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Health Oleg Salagay.
"As of 21:00 [local time, or 18:00 GMT] on January 25, 2020, no laboratory-confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV have been registered in Russia," Salagay wrote on his official Telegram channel on Saturday.
Earlier on Saturday, a representative for the Russian capital's emergency services told Sputnik that seven Chinese citizens had been transported from a hotel in northern Moscow to an infectious diseases hospital on suspicion of carrying an acute viral respiratory illness.
