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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The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale against Igor Shemetov, an employee of the housing and utilities service of a military town in the Irkutsk region. According to the agency, he placed cryptocurrency mining equipment at work, causing damage to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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The wife of 54-year-old entrepreneur Vladimir Shch. from Ust-Kut took him home after nearly a day spent in the police station and military enlistment office, where, according to the family’s complaint to the prosecutor’s office, the man was being pressured to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense. Vladimir is now with his family, and his relatives fear he may be tracked down and are trying not to let him go out alone.

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On the afternoon of September 21 in the village of Granovshchina in the Irkutsk region, a 59-year-old Toyota driver hit a 10-year-old boy at full speed. The child was hospitalized with serious injuries, and the regional Interior Ministry did not specify whether the driver had been detained.

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Since the end of August, bear encounters with people have been recorded almost daily in 41 regions of Russia. By mid-September, the media had counted at least 12 dead and more than 530 shot animals, while the regions are introducing states of heightened alert and closing tourist routes.

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