Asia-Pacific / Russia · Science & Health

Russian lab worker's death raises plague concerns in Siberia

Rank
Running: 32h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 28
Regions: 5
Countries: 22
Languages: 4

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Merged into Russia reports second plague death, downplays outbreak risk

Gulf News United Arab Emirates · English 6 Oct, 19:13 UTC

The earliest of 25 English reports

Read it also in O‘zbek (1) · +2 languages

Read at Gulf News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Gulf News, 6 Oct, 19:13 UTC.
Second country: Ireland, with RTÉ.
Second region: Europe, with RTÉ.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 7 Oct, 13:26 UTC.
Now: 28 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 22 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

46%18%14%

Africa 3 outlets · 3 countries · 11%
Americas 3 outlets · 2 countries · 11%
Asia-Pacific 13 outlets · 10 countries · 46%
Europe 5 outlets · 3 countries · 18%
Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 14%

First movers

Gulf News 6 Oct, 19:13 UTC
RTÉ +8m
NDTV +5h 26m
Irish Independent +9h 16m
The Independent (UG) +10h 20m

Latest arrivals

Ratopati 8 Oct, 01:18 UTC
Al Jazeera 8 Oct, 00:16 UTC
Philstar 7 Oct, 23:43 UTC
CNA 7 Oct, 21:58 UTC
NPR 7 Oct, 21:06 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 28 outlets in 22 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 28 outlets, 5 state-owned, 3 public-service, 20 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Egypt, Nigeria, Uganda. Americas 2: Canada, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: Australia, China, India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Uzbekistan. Europe 3: Ireland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Nepali, Ukrainian, Uzbek.
Timeline: Earliest article Gulf News, 6 Oct 2026, 19:13 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 19:30 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 01:57 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Russia. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 7.04, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged into Russia reports second plague death, downplays outbreak risk. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 19:30 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 01:57 UTC

Covered by 28 outlets

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Europe 5 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets

Al Jazeera Qatar 8 Oct, 00:16 UTC
Russia dismisses reports of second plague case as ‘false information’
Gulf News United Arab Emirates 7 Oct, 17:05 UTC
Russia's plague scare: What we know
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- 'Nobody seems to care': Russian city shrugs off plague reports 6 Oct, 19:13 UTC
Anadolu Agency Turkey 7 Oct, 15:24 UTC
EXPLAINER - What to know about ‘plague’ quarantine in Siberian region of Russia?
Arab News Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 15:02 UTC
Russia keeps a tight lid on suspected case of pneumonic plague as global concerns mount

Covered by 28 outlets

Africa 3 outlets

Americas 3 outlets

Asia-Pacific 13 outlets

Europe 5 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets