Centre for Health Protection: Immediate risk of Russia's unknown pneumonia to Hong Kong is low; measures in place to guard against importation

The Centre for Health Protection assessed that the unknown pneumonia in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast poses a low immediate risk to Hong Kong's public health, and said prevention and control measures have been taken to guard against imported cases. The centre cited information from the World Health Organization and Russian authorities, saying no plague cases had been recorded locally recently and no evidence of sustained transmission had been found, but the cause of death remains unknown and uncertainties surrounding the incident persist.