Don't Believe in Idle Gossip and Hearsay: Kremlin on Reports of Plague in Irkutsk Region - tennews.in: National News Portal
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The employee of a Russian laboratory who died last week did not suffer from the plague, according to local authorities. Media reported that the lab worker may have broken a test tube at the anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk region and contracted the infectious disease as a result. However, the governor of Irkutsk says that no traces of the plague were found during her autopsy.
The Russians should not give credence to "the rumors circulating about a possible outbreak of plague in the Irkutsk region," Russian Federation President Dmitri Peskov's spokesman said.
Russian officials on Monday downplayed reports of a laboratory specialist who died of the plague in Siberia, saying the situation was under control and post-mortem examinations found no trace of the disease.
Russian officials on Monday played down reports of a lab technician in Siberia dying of plague, saying the situation was under control and that post-mortem tests had found no trace of the disease. The Kremlin also responded to the plague situation.
There are rumors that plague is breaking out in the country.
There are high-level professionals working in Rossmenadzor, and their assessments and official statements are worth listening to, not rumors and gossip, as reported in the briefing by Russian President Dmitry Peskov's press secretary...
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