A mask mandate was introduced at the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant to protect against the plague The company’s director said that a lot of “rumors and contradictory information” are spreading in the city. Meanwhile, several hospitals were immediately placed under quarantine for three weeks. Strict restrictions have been introduced in the hospitals: patients are not allowed to leave, and visits from relatives are prohibited. Rospotrebnadzor, for its part, claims that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region is stable. But the Russian authorities are hiding the real scale of the infection in order not to cause panic among the population. On October 3, the authorities of Baikalsk urged residents not to travel to Shelekhov because of the plague situation. Two hours later, the message was deleted. The pro-government REN TV channel also deleted five publications dedicated to the infection. P.S. The photo is, of course, illustrative.