The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is monitoring reports of an alleged plague case and related quarantine measures in Russia, a White House spokesperson told Axios. In Irkutsk Oblast, officials earlier reported the death of an employee of an anti-plague institute, after which the Shelekhov hospital was placed under quarantine and 189 people who had been in contact with her were hospitalized.

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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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