# Irkutsk Region records about 16,000 ARVI cases weekly

https://mins.news/en/item/87049

- TASS, 2026-10-05 21:25 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://tass.com/society/2197871

> Irkutsk Region is recording about 16,000 acute respiratory viral infection cases a week, with no increase over the past 14 days, Russia’s consumer watchdog said. Online rumors had claimed that a female employee of an anti-plague institute had plague, but the agency said she was diagnosed with pneumonia of undetermined etiology.

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