28 Feb 2020 09:25

All Chinese citizens discharged from quarantine facility in Yekaterinburg

YEKATERINBURG. Feb 28 (Interfax) - All Chinese citizens have been discharged from the quarantine facility on the premises of the Bodrost health center in Yekaterinburg, a spokesman for Rospotrebnadzor's Sverdlovsk regional branch told Interfax on Friday.

"The Chinese citizens were discharged from Bodrost yesterday [on February 27]," the source said.

The Sverdlovsk authorities designated the Bodrost health center in Yekaterinburg as the facility for two-week quarantine of Chinese citizens in early February. Sixty-four persons, including two children, were admitted to the facility on February 7. All of them were tested for the coronavirus but neither test turned out positive. The first six persons were discharged on February 20.