MOSCOW, April 15 (RAPSI) - A court in St. Petersburg on Wednesday refused to overturn an order of Russia’s consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor obliging a Russian citizen, who had arrived from abroad, to be isolated for medical observation, the United press service of St. Petersburg courts reports.

A lawsuit was filed by the St. Petersburg resident Georgy Obraztsov. It was the first such claim to the authority, according to a press service official.

The claimant stated that he arrived from Switzerland to Moscow and later travelled to St. Petersburg this March, but underwent no medical examination and was given no recommendation to stay at home. When visiting a governmental office to extend his foreign passport, he was contacted by the police, who then convoyed him to an isolation and observatory medical establishment.

The man argued that he was not duly informed on measures aimed at protection from the spreading of the infection disease he needed to undertake.

He asked for permission to be self-isolated at home as he feels unsafe surrounded by potentially infected persons in the medical establishment.