Europe / Russia · Science & Health

WHO assesses plague risk after reported Russian lab worker death

Rank
Ran: 43h
Updated: 5h ago
Final
Outlets: 50
Regions: 4
Countries: 33
Languages: 19

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: TASS, 6 Oct, 00:31 UTC.
Second country: Vietnam, with Dân Trí.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Dân Trí.
Fastest hour: +8 outlets from 6 Oct, 09:29 UTC.
Last article: 50 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 33 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

24%12%60%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
Americas 12 outlets · 9 countries · 24%
Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 5 countries · 12%
Europe 30 outlets · 17 countries · 60%

First movers

TASS 6 Oct, 00:31 UTC
Dân Trí +3h 26m
VOV +3h 29m
RTÉ +6h 7m
VRT NWS +8h 58m

Last to join

Exitosa 7 Oct, 17:34 UTC
DR 7 Oct, 17:30 UTC
Observador 7 Oct, 17:29 UTC
Le Figaro 7 Oct, 17:14 UTC
Primicias 7 Oct, 16:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 50 outlets in 33 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 50 outlets, 3 state-owned, 8 public-service, 39 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Senegal, South Africa. Americas 9: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 5: Afghanistan, Indonesia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 17: Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom. 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: Czech, Danish, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article TASS, 6 Oct 2026, 00:31 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 00:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 20:30 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: 1.28, 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.
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

6 Oct 2026 23 18.07 37 27 37 27 4.6

7 Oct 2026 85 7.73 50 33 20 16 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 6 Oct, 00:40 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 20:30 UTC

Covered by 50 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	23	18.07	37	27	37	27	4.6
7 Oct 2026	85	7.73	50	33	20	16	4.6

Covered by 50 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 12 outlets

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

Europe 30 outlets