On October 7 in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization had requested additional information from Russia on the situation in the Irkutsk region after the death of an employee of the anti-plague institute. According to WHO, about 200 contacts were placed in quarantine, and a full risk assessment is not yet possible.

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The U.S. Embassy in Russia advised American citizens not to travel to the country and to leave it immediately if they are already there. The warning is linked to reports of the spread of pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast and a quarantine after a person's death.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will soon call Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible plague outbreak in Russia. When asked by journalists whether he had spoken with Putin about this before, Trump replied that the conversation would take place soon.

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In Irkutsk Oblast, three city clinical hospitals in Irkutsk, the Ivano-Matreninsky Children's Hospital, the city maternity hospital, and the Central District Hospital of Shelekhov were closed for quarantine. A mask mandate was introduced at the aluminum plant in Shelekhov, and Rospotrebnadzor said it was a case of «pneumonia of unspecified etiology».

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The administration of the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant (IrkAZ) ordered medical masks to be worn at the enterprise in Shelekhov after the death there of 28-year-old lab assistant of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute Darya Shipilova. This was reported by the plant’s general director Artem Fominykh in his Telegram channel.

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