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MOSCOW — Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday that the outbreak of coronavirus in neighboring China had caused a drop in trade with Russia of 1 billion roubles ($15.68 million) a day.

Siluanov made the comments to the RBC online news portal.

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($1 = 63.7725 roubles) (Reporting by Darya Korsunskaya Editing by Andrew Osborn)