Alina Nikoghosyan, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, said in a statement on the news spread in the news feeds that two Chinese were in the intensive care unit at Nork Infectious Disease Clinic with high fever and suspicion of coronavirus.

“We officially deny the presence of the virus in patients. The latter have no clinical features characteristic of coronavirus: fever, headache, general weakness, and cough. Moreover, x-rays have not diagnosed pneumonia,” she said.