Trump will meet with Putin about the epidemic in Russia

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.

epidemic in Russia

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

On some social media channels, it was claimed that an employee of an anti-plague institute died due to "pulmonary plague" on the same day.

In the statement made by Rospotrebnadzor, it was reported that special measures were implemented after an employee of the Siberian and Far Eastern Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute was diagnosed with "pneumonia of unknown cause."