Russia denies plague restrictions after technician's death reports

Russian authorities denied introducing special restrictions following reports that a laboratory technician, Darya Shipilova, died of pneumonic plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region. Despite Washington monitoring the situation, Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor called a circulating document about heightened sanitary measures fake and confirmed no such decisions were made. The sanitary-epidemiological situation in Irkutsk remains stable, officials said.

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