{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_xz76rfqlcopebw54nktq","title":"Hospitals in Irkutsk impose quarantines after an employee at an anti-plague institute dies. Russia’s public health agency says she died of pneumonia and the epidemiological situation remains ‘stable.’","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/hospitals-in-irkutsk-impose-quarantines-after-an-employee-at-an-anti-xz76rfqlco","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_xz76rfqlcopebw54nktq","seq":1741421,"kind":"article","title":"Hospitals in Irkutsk impose quarantines after an employee at an anti-plague institute dies. Russia’s public health agency says she died of pneumonia and the epidemiological situation remains ‘stable.’","url":"https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/05/hospitals-in-irkutsk-impose-quarantines-after-an-employee-at-an-anti-plague-institute-dies-russia-s-public-health-agency-says-she-died-of-pneumonia-and-the-epidemiological-situation-remains-stable","summary":"Several hospitals in Irkutsk had imposed three-week quarantines, the news outlet People of Baikal reported on October 4. City Clinical Hospitals No. 1, No. 3, and No. 10 and the Ivano-Matreninskaya Children’s Hospital are closed, the outlet reported. Relatives of a woman giving birth at one of Irkutsk’s maternity hospitals told the outlet that it had also imposed a quarantine.","published":"2026-10-05T00:47:03Z","seen":"2026-10-05T01:25:35Z","lang":"en","country":"UA","source":{"id":"kite-meduza-io-e69e65","name":"meduza.io","domain":"meduza.io","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q18340732","name":"Meduza","type":"website","country":"LV","designations":["mobile app","news website"]}},"via":"kite-meduza-io-e69e65","entities":[{"id":"Q6576","name":"Irkutsk","type":"place"},{"id":"Q159","name":"Russia","type":"place"}],"image":"https://meduza.io/image/attachments/images/012/816/791/small/FmjrQulLIqwKczVPXCl9uQ","story":"st_xz76rfqlcopebw54nktq","category":"health","category_p":0.75,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.8299999833106995,"political":0.1599999964237213}]}