‘Black demise plague’ shuts down 5 hospitals as Covid-era masks mandate reintroduced
Five hospitals in total have so far been closed for quarantining in Siberia, thanks to a possible plague outbreak with special service vehicles helping to transport those suspected to be infection
Investigations into the black plague are ongoing in Russia(Image: Sergei Bobylev/Pool Sputnik Krem)
Numerous hospitals have been closed and are quarantining as the ‘black death plague’ starts to spread across Europe. Five hospitals in total have so far been closed for quarantining in Siberia, thanks to a possible plague outbreak.
The medical centres have reportedly closed for a minimum three-week quarantine after a laboratory worker died from an “unspecified form of plague” in Russia.
According to reports from the independent media outlet Baikal People, hospitals in the Irkutsk region of Russia have been closed for a three-week quarantine after 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died after reportedly breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis, a bacteria that causes the plague, a severe infectious disease found mainly in small mammals and their fleas.
Hospitals have been shut down(Image: Getty Images)
The incident happened in the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while she was handling samples and now it seems the illness is spreading as it has gone from affecting one hospital, to five.
A mask mandate – similar to that introduced in the UK during Covid times – has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk.
Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure, and at present it is believed there are some 200 people under observation.
Some of the affected hospitals are said to be City Clinical Hospitals Nos. 1, 3, and 10, as well as the Ivano-Matreninskaya City Children’s Clinical Hospital.
People are wearing masks as mandatory in areas of Russia(Image: Yorkshire Live)
Quoting a source in the healthcare sector, Baikal People reports that doctors in Irkutsk are “already openly talking about the plague.”
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region confirmed that nearly 200 people are under medical observation, according to media reports and no one is allowed to leave or to visit any relatives at any of the named hospitals.
Putin’s Russia is said to have the plague(Image: Getty Images)
The Moscow Times said that Alexei Tsydenov, head of the neighbouring republic of Buryatia, confirmed that the woman had died from an unspecified form of plague.
It is also claimed that ambulances transporting these contacts for testing have been escorted by officers of the FSB, Russia’s federal security service.
