The agency closed its file in three messages that Interfax carried at 12:08, 12:17 and 18:46. Observation of all contacts is complete, no health disorder linked to infectious pathology was found, and the information about a second case in a person who had been in contact with the employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute does not correspond to reality, the first two say. The sanitary and epidemiological situation in Irkutsk region and the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov is calm and there are no risks to public health, the evening press release says.
Two independent commissions on biological safety found no accidents in work with pathogenic microorganisms at the institute, and the patient had been vaccinated and had immunity to the dangerous infections she worked with, the release adds. Five Rospotrebnadzor organisations, three research institutes among them, ran the tests by bacteriological, biological, mass-spectrometric and molecular-genetic methods. The quarantine introduced over the case has been lifted, Governor Igor Kobzev said the same day, by Vedomosti.
The diagnosis printed on 4 October stays as the agency wrote it, pneumonia of unestablished aetiology, and the agency repeats that no microorganism linked to the patient’s professional activity was found in material from her. Four days after the diagnosis, the agency’s file closes on 5,500 tests and a word it still prints as unestablished. Its messages have never carried the number of contacts, and the figure of about 200 comes from Meduza’s report of 2 October.
The ECDC’s wording of Tuesday, a case of pneumonia suspected to be pneumonic plague, and the WHO Director-General’s question of Wednesday about reports of a second worker, as CAW reported on Thursday, now have the agency’s answer on the second worker and no change on the first.
Four days after the diagnosis, the agency’s file closes on 5,500 tests and a word it still prints as unestablished.
Armenia’s commission met on Thursday evening and discussed measures to keep the disease from entering the country from Irkutsk region and spreading, Armenpress reported at 20:08. The ministry is in constant contact with Rospotrebnadzor and with partners at the World Health Organization, and according to the information received the situation is under control, said Mariam Tsatryan, the health minister’s press secretary, in the only quotation the agency printed.
Anahit Avanesyan had told parliament on Wednesday of an operational group and stepped-up checks of arrivals, as CAW reported on Thursday beside the Mongolian and Georgian ministers’ lines. The commission’s chair, its decision’s number and the measures it adopted are on no page yet.