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- Russian authorities placed 200 contacts under observation after a laboratory worker died of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Siberia.
- The 28-year-old technician Daria Shipilova was hospitalized on September 29 and died on October 2.
- Governor Igor Kobzev held an emergency anti-epidemic meeting and ordered comprehensive safety actions.
- Rospotrebnadzor said the sanitary situation in Irkutsk and Shelekhov remained stable and found no lab-linked pathogen.
