Europe / Russia · Science & Health

Russia denies plague cases in Siberian region

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 19h ago
Final
Outlets: 9
Regions: 5
Countries: 7
Languages: 3

The Moscow Times Russia · English 7 Oct, 10:17 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Français (1) · +1 language

Read at The Moscow Times

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Moscow Times, 7 Oct, 10:17 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 9 Oct, 08:02 UTC.
Last article: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

22%22%34%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 22%
Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%
Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 34%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%

First movers

The Moscow Times 7 Oct, 10:17 UTC
TASS +25h 15m
Anadolu Agency +27h 24m
Hespress +31h 21m
Tuoi Tre News +42h 7m

Last to join

South China Morning Post 9 Oct, 09:00 UTC
Le360 9 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Unian 9 Oct, 08:02 UTC
Bloomberg 9 Oct, 05:04 UTC
Tuoi Tre News 9 Oct, 04:24 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: US pressures Russia over suspected plague case in Siberia, 5 to 7 Oct 2026, 25 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 7 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 3 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Morocco. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 2: Hong Kong, Vietnam. Europe 2: Russia, Ukraine. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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, French, Ukrainian.
Timeline: Earliest article The Moscow Times, 7 Oct 2026, 10:17 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 09:00 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 Europe, 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: 0.14, 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: Continues US pressures Russia over suspected plague case in Siberia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

9 Oct 2026 191 4.08 9 7 5 5 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 11:30 UTC · Updated 9 Oct, 09:00 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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South China Morning Post Hong Kong 9 Oct, 09:00 UTC
Russia lifts plague lab-related measures. Should China – and the world – be relieved?
Le360 Morocco 9 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Soupçons de peste pulmonaire en Russie: aucune pathologie infectieuse détectée après l’analyse de tous les cas contacts
Unian Ukraine 9 Oct, 08:02 UTC
У Росії заявили, що чума в Іркутську за результатами досліджень не підтвердилася
Bloomberg United States 9 Oct, 05:04 UTC
Russia Ends Irkutsk Health Measures as Tests Find No Pathogens
Tuoi Tre News Vietnam 9 Oct, 04:24 UTC
Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague case
Hespress Morocco 8 Oct, 17:37 UTC
Russia says no health issues from plague contact case
Anadolu Agency Turkey 8 Oct, 13:40 UTC
Russia denies reports of 2nd ‘plague’ case in Siberia’s Irkutsk
TASS Russia 8 Oct, 11:32 UTC
WHO confirms no new plague cases reported in Siberian region, Russia’s watchdog says
The Moscow Times Russia 7 Oct, 10:17 UTC
U.S. Embassy Urges Citizens to Leave Russia Over Siberian Plague Suspicions