Rospotrebnadzor specialists plan to visit Turkey, where an outbreak of the Coxsackievirus was recorded last year, after May 10, RIA Novosti reports, citing Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova.
She recalled that a meeting took place in the fall with representatives of Turkey in Moscow.
"A trip has been planned and already agreed upon with the Turkish side after May 10," the agency's source stated. According to the head of the oversight agency, the trip is aimed at monitoring sanitary and epidemiological conditions and reducing the risk of Russian tourists contracting infectious diseases.
Popova noted that the agency is making every effort to ensure that Russians' vacations are safe.
Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) has become concerned about the epidemiological situation at Turkish resorts following complaints to its hotline: more than 980 Russians, including 771 children, have contracted the infection while on vacation. According to the agency, the largest number of calls were related to vacations in the second half of July and early August. All affected individuals reported fever, rash, itching, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, all symptoms characteristic of an enterovirus infection.
Source: trn-news.ru