• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    For those who need to know more:

    Local media have reported that the institute has subsequently been locked down, with staff forced to sleep on the floor and on chairs. “They’ve been isolating everybody since Friday – more than 60 people,” one relative, Roman, told the news portal Siberia.Realities.

    He said family members were allowed to drop off food at a checkpoint while tests were carried out inside the building. Similar quarantine restrictions have been placed on several other hospitals in and around the city.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk

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      1 day ago

      At least this time around they seem to be treating it seriously instead of trying to cover it up to save face I guess?

      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        They do both “nothing to see here” while trying their worst best to contain it.

        My money is on them shipping infected people to the front lines while saying they are just in quarantine.

        A few weeks later “oh noes they all ded frum virus” meanwhile they just spread it to all their own troops while claiming it’s just a flu and everyone is fine.