Russia is believed to have implemented a lockdown on hospitals and medical centres in a 30-square-mile area following a feared plague outbreak.
Panic broke out when a female laboratory technician died and hundreds of people she came into contact with were placed in quarantine.
Darya Shipilova, 28, was reportedly working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia when she was exposed to pneumonic plague.
Shipilova told medical staff she had accidentally broken a test tube holding live bacteria, according to news outlet Lyudi Baikala.
Now, foreign states have urgently tightened border health controls despite Russia insisting the anti-plague scientist died from ‘unidentified pneumonia‘, rather than
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