Russian officials report pneumonia diagnosis

• Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor (🇷🇺) said an employee at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East (🇷🇺) was diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause. Read with skepticism: record of concealment¹
• Confirmed WHO (🇺🇳) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (🇪🇹) said the institute employee died on 2 October after hospitalisation with severe pneumonia.¹
• Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor (🇷🇺) said samples from the employee contained no microorganisms related to the employee's professional work.¹
• Confirmed The institute's biosafety oversight committee said no accident occurred during work with pathogenic microorganisms.¹
  • Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor's expert committee (🇷🇺) confirmed the biosafety oversight committee's conclusion.¹
• Confirmed Local authorities took public-health measures after the employee became ill.¹
  • Confirmed Authorities identified the employee's contacts as widely as possible and arranged medical observation and daily laboratory tests.¹
  • Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor (🇷🇺) said no infectious diseases had been reported among institute staff in the past 10 days.¹
• Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor (🇷🇺) said public-health conditions were stable in Irkutsk Region, Irkutsk and Shelekhov. Read with skepticism: record of concealment¹
  • Confirmed Rospotrebnadzor (🇷🇺) said respiratory-virus cases in Irkutsk Region over the past 2 weeks were near the average for previous years.¹
  • Confirmed WHO (🇺🇳) said Russian health authorities (🇷🇺) had reported no recent plague cases in Irkutsk Region.¹
  • Confirmed WHO (🇺🇳) said tests of the employee's contacts found no high-threat pathogens.¹

The reports (1)

• Russian officials say an employee at a plague research institute was diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown cause” _ Phoenix Net凤凰网 · Chinese · 7 Oct, 12:27