Russian Authorities Are Confused About the Irkutsk Plague Incident
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The Irkutsk Aluminum Plant (IrkAZ) in Shelekhov has introduced a mask-wearing regime after a local resident died of the plague, the company's director, Artyom Fominych, said. He said it was a "preventive measure."
Officials in Russia’s Irkutsk region advised against traveling to a town where a hospital patient may have died of plague. They later deleted the post.
The administration of Baikalsk, a city in the Irkutsk region, published a Telegram post urging residents not to travel to Shelekhov, a satellite town of Irkutsk where a hospital patient may have died of pneumonic plague. It deleted the post two hours later, People of Baikal reported.
Russian authorities are refraining from releasing clear information about a case of plague infection in the Irkutsk region in late September. At the same time, restrictions are being tightened in the region.
Three public hospitals, a maternity hospital and a children's hospital in Irkutsk, Siberia, were quarantined, after the occurrence of a case of plague that caused the death of a local woman, informs the local press, taken over by The Moscow Times. Also, the workers of the aluminum factory in Şelehov, Irkutsk, were asked to stay at [...] Article Ciuma puts Russia on alert: Five hospitals, quarantined. Ambulances with suspected patients, escorted …
Irkutian students report a masked regime at the medical university, and hospitals remain on quarantine, although this is officially denied, as reported on the air by Rain Elena Triphonova, the publisher of the magazine People of Baikala.
Tass: "Further analysis of the 28-year-old who died denies infection by laboratory accident": the Health and Anti-Epidemic Commission meets as a matter of urgency. "Planed special measures": "Popova: the situation in Irkutsk is stable": "Popova: the situation in Irkutsk is stable": "Popova: the situation in Irkutsk is stable."
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