Asia-Pacific / Russia · Science & Health

Laboratory worker death suspected plague outbreak in Siberia Russia

Rank
Running: 23h
Updated: 36m ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 108
Regions: 5
Countries: 58
Languages: 25

+48

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Infobae, 4 Oct, 23:26 UTC.
Second country: Ukraine, with Ukrainska Pravda.
Second region: Europe, with Ukrainska Pravda.
Fastest hour: +9 outlets from 5 Oct, 04:07 UTC.
Now: 108 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 58 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

20%15%50%

Africa 6 outlets · 6 countries · 6%
Americas 22 outlets · 10 countries · 20%
Asia-Pacific 16 outlets · 11 countries · 15%
Europe 54 outlets · 25 countries · 50%
Middle East 10 outlets · 6 countries · 9%

First movers

Infobae 4 Oct, 23:26 UTC
Ukrainska Pravda +28m
Fox News +40m
Times of India +4h 30m
Al Jazeera +4h 41m

Latest arrivals

La República (PE) 5 Oct, 21:30 UTC
Frankfurter Allgemeine 5 Oct, 20:46 UTC
Jamaica Observer 5 Oct, 20:30 UTC
SBS News 5 Oct, 20:15 UTC
NV 5 Oct, 20:06 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Russian lab worker dies after plague release in Siberia, 2 to 5 Oct 2026, 45 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 108 outlets in 58 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 108 outlets, 2 state-owned, 11 public-service, 95 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 6: Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 10: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 11: Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan. Europe 25: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Lebanon, Oman, 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: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Infobae, 4 Oct 2026, 23:26 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 23:30 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 22:12 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: 18.12, 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 Russian lab worker dies after plague release in Siberia. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 23:30 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 22:12 UTC

Covered by 108 outlets

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Covered by 108 outlets

Africa 6 outlets

Americas 22 outlets

Asia-Pacific 16 outlets

Europe 54 outlets

Middle East 10 outlets