In Uzbekistan, the readiness of services has been increased due to reports of infection in Russia

In Uzbekistan, the readiness of services has been increased to prevent the importation and spread of particularly dangerous infections. This was stated in the Committee on Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health.

The reason was reports in the media and social networks about a suspected case of a dangerous disease (presumably plague) in the Irkutsk region of Russia, where after the death of a patient, a district hospital in the city of Shelekhov was closed for quarantine, and citizens who contacted her were placed under observation.

The Sanitary and Epidemiological Committee is monitoring the situation in interaction with the authorized agencies of the Russian Federation and representatives of the World Health Organization. Specialists are clarifying the data on laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis, possible sources of infection, routes of movement of the diseased and the circle of contact persons.

The agency called on citizens to focus exclusively on official sources and promised to publish additional information in case of a change in the epidemiological situation.