Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov have discussed the situation with coronavirus in two countries over the telephone, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“The foreign ministers discussed the situation in both countries in connection with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, steps to counteract the spread of infection and neutralize its negative consequences”, – the Ministry said in a statement.
The World Health Organization on March 11 announced an outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 with a pandemic. According to the latest WHO data, more than 1.4 million cases of infection have been recorded in the world, more than 85.5 thousand people have died.