{"id":302719,"date":"2026-10-05T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=302719"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:57:41","slug":"peskov-urges-reliance-on-official-statements-regarding-the-epidemiological-situation-in-the-irkutsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/302719\/","title":{"rendered":"Peskov urges reliance on official statements regarding the epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has urged people to rely on official statements from &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo; regarding the epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region rather than on rumors and speculation, <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20261005\/irkutsk-2122289271.html?in=l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this case, the leading agency competent in this field is &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo;. It is &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rsquo;s&rdquo; official statements that should be followed, without listening to various rumors, speculations, and so on,&rdquo; Peskov told journalists when asked whether the Kremlin is monitoring the situation in the Irkutsk region.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, regional Governor Igor Kobzev reported that a dangerous infectious disease had been detected in the Angara region, a set of anti-epidemic measures is underway, and the situation is under strict control. In addition, the regional government held an extraordinary meeting of the regional sanitary and anti-epidemic commission with the participation of &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo; head Anna Popova.<\/p>\n<p>&rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo;, in turn, reported that an infected employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute tested negative for microorganisms related to her professional activities. Examinations of individuals who had been in contact with her revealed no changes in health status associated with an infectious pathology. As the agency emphasized, the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region is stable.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has urged people to rely on official statements from &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo; regarding the epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region rather than on rumors and speculation, RIA Novosti reports. &ldquo;In this case, the leading agency competent in this field is &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rdquo;. It is &rdquo;Rospotrebnadzor&rsquo;s&rdquo; official statements that should be followed, without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":302714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302720,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302719\/revisions\/302720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}