美国和欧盟官员周一表示，他们正在密切监测俄罗斯一起疑似肺鼠疫病例，该病例导致西伯利亚一家研究所的一名实验室工作人员死亡，促使当地当局隔离了数十人。
US and EU officials said on Monday they were closely monitoring a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia that killed a lab worker in a Siberian research institute, prompting authorities there to quarantine dozens of people.
“我们掌握的情报不多，”一名美国卫生官员告诉《华盛顿邮报》：“我们应该保持警惕但不必恐慌。”《内幕人》报道称，中亚国家收紧了卫生边境管控，与此同时克里姆林宫否认了鼠疫报告，并敦促媒体“无视各种谣言”，这发生在广泛审查的背景下。
“We don’t have a lot of intel,” one US health official told The Washington Post: “We should be alert but not panicked.”Central Asian countries tightened sanitary border controls, even as the Kremlin denied reports of plague and urged media to “to ignore various rumors” amid widespread censorship, The Insider reported.
“俄罗斯众所周知拥有活跃的军事生物武器计划，”拜登政府的新冠疫情应对协调员指出，暗示莫斯科缺乏透明度意味着“我们必须相应地加强生物防御”。—— Brendan Ruberry
“Russia is well known to have an active military biological weapons program,” the Biden administration’s coronavirus response coordinator noted, suggesting that Moscow’s lack of transparency means “we have to build up our biodefense accordingly.”— Brendan Ruberry