"Situation under control": Russian authorities reassure public after plague reports in Siberia
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What happened
The governor of Irkutsk insists that the lab assistant died from "pneumonia of unknown origin", while the Kremlin passed questions to Rospotrebnadzor, stressing that "top professionals in this field work there".
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