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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WHO has published recommendations for protecting health during mass events — major sporting competitions, religious and cultural events. According to the organization, since the 1990s the number of heat-related deaths has increased by 63%, and in 2012–2021 an average of 546,000 such deaths were recorded worldwide each year.

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In St. Petersburg, all coronavirus restrictions will be lifted starting October 1. The decision at Smolny was made on the basis of an order from the chief state sanitary doctor for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

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The Russian Ministry of Health has approved the first official version of the clinical guidelines «Sexual Preference Disorders»: the document of the Russian Society of Psychiatrists describes the diagnosis and treatment of fetishism, sadomasochism, and related conditions. Until now, there had been no approved guideline on this topic in the country.

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