Centre for Health Protection: Immediate risk to Hong Kong public health from unknown pneumonia death cases in Russia is low; health monitoring of travellers arriving from Russia stepped up

The Centre for Health Protection assessed that the unknown pneumonia death cases in Russia pose a low immediate risk to Hong Kong's public health, and has stepped up health monitoring at the airport for passengers on relevant flights arriving from Russia. The latest announcement by the World Health Organization and information from Russian authorities showed that no plague cases have been recorded in Irkutsk Oblast recently, and no evidence of ongoing transmission related to the incident was found.