Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that Russian health authorities reported that no case of plague had recently been registered in Irkutsk region, in response to WHO’s verification request.
Russia’s health watchdog has reassured locals that the “epidemiological situation” is stable, but local media reported that 60 workers in the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute were in quarantine and a that number of hospitals were subject to restrictions The Kremlin has urged people to rely on updates from the health watchdog rather than “various rumors and speculation.
According to its website, the Anti-Plague Institute employs around 95 researchers and is a major public health facility responsible for monitoring and preventing outbreaks of high-risk bacterial and viral infections across Siberia and Russia’s Far East.
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