The Kremlin has called the planned date of the evacuation of Russians from China the aircraft of VC

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Evacuation of Russians from China the aircraft of VC is planned for 3-4 February, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.

“due To the fact that it took some time to complete the harmonization of flight information to the Chinese side, the evacuation of Russian citizens from China the aircraft of VC will be 3-4 February,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Aircraft of the Russian Federation videoconferencing will attract to evacuate on the orders of Vladimir Putin. Initially it was assumed that the first flights can be arranged on 1 February.

Regular flights of Russian and Chinese airlines from Russia to China and back is suspended. The exception would be flights from Moscow to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong (and return flight).

Flights of Russian airlines in other cities in China translated regular basis for Charter. Because of this possible change in the schedule.

In Russia have revealed the first two cases of a new form of pneumonia. They are citizens of China, located in the TRANS-Baikal region and Tyumen region.

Contact with infected examined. The results of the tests some of them are already known: they’re negative.

the proliferation of 2019 coronavirus-nCoV became known in the end of December. His victims were 259 people infected about 12 thousand. The who declared the outbreak an emergency situation of international importance.

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