Russia may deport any foreigners found with coronavirus
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Foreign citizens could be deported from Russia if they test positive for the coronavirus, the prime minister said, according to country’s media outlets.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said a national plan to prevent the spread of the infection in Russia had been signed.
“It will allow us to deport foreigners if they are diagnosed with this disease and introduce special restrictions, including isolation and quarantine,” the prime minister explained in comments Monday reported by the TASS news agency and Interfax.
The newly appointed leader added that Russia had “all the necessary medications, protective means to counter the coronavirus spread.”
On Sunday, Mishustin signed the decree which included the virus, known formally as the “novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV,” in the list of diseases posing a threat to citizens, TASS also reported. It said that until recently the list, compiled in 2004, included “15 diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, Siberian plague, cholera and plague.”
Russia reportedly plans to start evacuating its citizens from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak originated, on Monday. There are more than 600 Russians in the Chinese city, according to a Reuters report citing Russia’s deputy prime minister.
Russia reported its first two coronavirus cases on Friday, two Chinese citizens that it said had been isolated. The
