Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.
The researcher, a 28-year-old female laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, in the town of Shelekhov, died after being diagnosed with a pneumonia of “unknown” origin, according to Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian agency that handles infectious disease.
It reminds me of like January-February 2020.
Like, listening to the radio and every morning the news headlines are “there are now X confirmed cases and extending as far as Y, Z, and W”
And every day, X gets a little bigger, and Y, Z, and W get a little further from Wuhan, until you start to notice that it’s actually getting closer to you. And then you hear about the first reported cases in your country. Et cetera…