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In Russia — plague, the country is hiding the true scale: one person died, almost 200 quarantined, — The Sun
📍This concerns the Irkutsk region. After the death of a 28-year-old employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, up to 189 contacts may have been placed under surveillance and isolation.
📍The woman was suspected of having pneumonic plague. She was hospitalized on 29 September with severe breathing problems, put on a ventilator, and died two days later.
📍The version that a test tube was accidentally broken in the laboratory raises doubts: staff at such institutions work in special protective gear, so he considers that scenario unlikely.
📍The situation is so serious that the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, personally came to the region, and the hospital in Shelekhov was closed for quarantine.
📍At the same time, the governor of the Irkutsk region, Igor Kobzev, still does not name a specific disease and speaks only of a suspicion of an “especially dangerous infection.”
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