Three hospitals in the Irkutsk region are under quarantine.
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Louder with CrowderOct 5, 2026
The claim that three hospitals in the Irkutsk region were under quarantine is contradicted by the sources: the only hospital confirmed under quarantine was the Shelekhov District Hospital, and Irkutsk hospitals denied the closures reported by Lyudi Baikala, with Russia telling WHO that no other facility was quarantined.
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… Ah, that's right. That's with this lady humor. Just play, no big deal. You gotta understand why we're kinda concerned, right? More than 60 employees at the facility in Irkutsk are under forced quarantine. Gets worse: Three other hospitals are under quarantine, and, ah, your small hands guy who's come from crunch country he's Cuba's bitch. We call him Marco Rubio said that the United States is monitoring this situation. Thank you. …
Louder with Crowder · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Russia told WHO that apart from the hospital where the woman was admitted, no other healthcare facility was quarantined or subjected to additional public health measures.[2]
Contradicts. Four Irkutsk hospitals (including Irkutsk City Clinical Hospital No. 1 and the Ivano-Matreninskaya children's hospital) publicly denied the social media claims that they were shut for a three-week plague quarantine.[3]
Supports. Reuters reported that only a local hospital in Shelekhov was placed under quarantine, and the deputy district head said the 60% of quarantined people had been released; this confirms the single-hospital quarantine, not three.[1]
Context. Lyudi Baikala's report of quarantines at several Irkutsk hospitals (Nos. 1, 3, 10 and a children's hospital) came from one unnamed healthcare source and was not confirmed by officials; a local on-site check on 5 October found no quarantine at Nos. 1, 3 and 10.[2][4]
Context. Later reporting says the quarantine in Shelekhov was lifted around 8 October, so the state of affairs on the claim's date was the single Shelekhov hospital quarantine, not three.[2]
Sources
4 sources: 1 fact-checker, 3 not rated
- 1No plague cases detected in Siberia, Russia says, and locals play down scarereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Irkutsk Plague Case 2026: Timeline, Contacts and What Is Confirmedplagueintel.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3Russia's Irkutsk hospitals deny plague quarantine reports - intellinewsnew.intellinews.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Hospitals in Irkutsk quarantined; doctors report plagueradiomoldova.md · not rated · cited for: context
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