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Chinese citizens passing through a temporary corridor opened at a border checkpoint between Blagoveshchensk and Heihe in Blagoveshchensk, Russia on February 1, 2020. Temporary corridors are opened to return Russian and Chinese citizens to their countries as the Russian government orders to close the border with China as a measure to prevent the coronavirus spread. All the people passing through the temporary corridor are tested for the virus. The 2019-nCoV pneumonia-like coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019; according to the latest reports, about 11,000 people globally have been infected, 259 have died from the virus. (Photo by Svetlana Mayorova/TASS)
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