# Quarantine completed in Russia’s Irkutsk region after lab worker’s death

https://mins.news/en/item/92490

- CGTN, 2026-10-09 01:42 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-10-09/Quarantine-completed-in-Russia-s-Irkutsk-after-lab-worker-s-death-1R5QbwUlFfy/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> Irkutsk Governor Igor Kobzev says preventive quarantine measures have ended after a 28-year-old employee of the region’s anti-plague research institute died of pneumonia of unknown origin in Shelekhov on October 2. Monitoring of contacts is complete, and nearly 5,000 tests found no dangerous pathogens.

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