WHO confirms no new plague cases reported in Siberian region, Russia’s watchdog says

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The WHO confirmed there are no new plague cases in Russia’s Irkutsk Region and no risk of a sanitary-epidemiological emergency, according to Russia’s consumer watchdog. The report offers reassurance about the regional public-health situation.

The global health body also confirmed that there are no risks of a sanitary-epidemiological emergency in the Irkutsk Region, the Russian agency added