All Russian and foreign nationals, evacuated from the coronavirus-hotbed Chinese city of Wuhan to the Tyumen city east of the Ural mountains in the center-south of Russia for a 14-day quarantine, currently feel well with no signs of infection, the local health department said on Thursday
YEKATERINBURG (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th February, 2020) All Russian and foreign nationals, evacuated from the coronavirus-hotbed Chinese city of Wuhan to the Tyumen city east of the Ural mountains in the center-south of Russia for a 14-day quarantine, currently feel well with no signs of infection, the local health department said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Russia arranged two flights to Wuhan and retrieved a total of 144 people, among them both Russian and foreign citizens. They were taken to a remote facility in a forest area some 17 miles from Tyumen to undergo a standard two-week quarantine.
"All Russians and foreigners that were evacuated from Wuhan on February 5 and placed in quarantine in the sanatorium outside Tyumen feel well and have not displayed any symptoms of infection," Tyumen region health department said.
�As the newly emerged strain of coronavirus continues spreading in China and beyond, many countries arranged for the evacuation of their citizens from Wuhan. Known so far about 2019-nCoV is that it can transmit from human to human and with no noticeable symptoms during the initial incubation period, the reason why evacuees are normally placed in a two-week quarantine upon repatriation.
