MOSCOW, Oct 7 — The Kremlin today appeared to reject reports of a second suspected plague case in Siberia, telling reporters when asked about the accounts that most media reporting on the situation was “false”.
The United States, the European Union and the World Health Organisation have all called on Russia to be transparent over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician at a plague research institute in Siberia’s Irkutsk region last week.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also called today for Moscow to clarify “media reports of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause”.
Asked about the reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “the media reports a great deal”.
