From Russia with cabin fever: coronavirus evacuees compare notes


  • World
  • Saturday, 08 Feb 2020

MOSCOW (Reuters) - It's a refurbished Soviet-style sanatorium, but there are no visitors, staff wear decontamination suits and riot police stand guard outside in temperatures of around -15 Celsius.

In the fenced-off complex in Siberia, 144 people have been put in quarantine under close observation for two weeks after the Russian military evacuated them this week from the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese city of Wuhan.

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