Health precautions from Indonesia for mysterious pneumonia case in Russia

According to Antara agency, Aji Muhawarman, Head of the Public Relations Bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, said in his statement that health measures were tightened for entry into the country following the mysterious pneumonia case in Russia.

Muhawarman stated that although there is no "global health warning" regarding the suspicion of pneumonia in question, surveillance has been increased at strategic entry points, especially airports and ports in Bali.

In this context, it is stated that measures such as carrying out necessary checks on the "health declaration form" that is mandatory for people traveling to Indonesia and uploaded to the online system, monitoring passengers for clinical symptoms, and various evaluations of cruise ships entering the country have been put into practice.

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 yesterday 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".