US media wrote: Russia has been warned…. Trump will meet with Putin about the epidemic

US President Trump answered questions from members of the press upon his return to the White House after an event held in Baltimore.

Asked whether he had met with Russian President Putin about the epidemic in Russia, Trump said, "We have an arranged phone call. We will meet very soon." he replied.

When asked what the US intelligence agencies' assessment of the epidemic was, Trump said: "We are paying close attention to the issue so far. We will probably announce a report on this issue tomorrow." he said.

USA WARNED RUSSIA ABOUT SHARING DETAILS OF THE "PNEUMANE CASE"

It was claimed that the USA warned Russia that "failure to share the details of the death of a person in the Siberian region with suspected pneumonia of unknown origin may be contrary to its international obligations."

According to the news of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), unnamed US officials made a statement on the issue.

Officials argued that the US administration called on Russia to share details regarding the death of the laboratory worker who died of suspected pneumonia.

Claiming that the United States warned Moscow that not sharing the details would conflict with Russia's international health obligations, officials said that "very little information has been shared" with Washington on the issue so far.

Authorities suggested that the lack of information sharing led to concerns about the spread of an infectious disease within Russia and beyond its borders.

An unnamed spokesperson from the US State Department stated that additional information was requested from Russia and that other countries were contacted on this issue.

OUTBREAK IN RUSSIA

Irkutsk Regional Governor Igor Kobzev announced on October 2 that an extraordinary sanitary and anti-epidemic commission meeting was held upon information that a person living in the region had "a suspicion of a particularly dangerous infection."

Some social media channels claimed that an employee of the anti-plague institute died due to "pulmonary plague" on the same day.

In the statement made by the Russian Human Health and Consumer Rights Protection Service (Rospotrebnadzor), it was stated that special measures were taken after an employee of the Siberian and Far East Irkutsk Plague Fighting Institute was diagnosed with "pneumonia of undetermined cause".

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that they did not yet have all the information about the case, and that it would be "irresponsible" to make assumptions in this case. "I think it is a necessity for Russia to share more information with the world. This is what they need to do and what we hope they will do." he said.

Rubio called on Russia to "be transparent and share more information," saying, "Although this information has been quite limited so far, we hope that the situation will change in the next few hours or days." He used the expression.