The state agency Antara reported that the additional measures include filling out health declarations, monitoring travelers for symptoms, risk assessment upon vessel arrival, and monitoring rodents and fleas.
Travelers with a high temperature, cough, or shortness of breath may be sent to special infectious disease hospitals for isolation, observation, and treatment.
Aji Muhawarman, director of the communications and public information bureau of Indonesia’s Ministry of Health, said that no notifications had been received from the World Health Organization requiring special vigilance because of possible plague transmission. According to him, Indonesian authorities are monitoring developments and strengthening preparedness measures.
Checks are also being carried out in Bali, which, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, remains one of the key holiday destinations in Asia for Russians, although tourists are increasingly choosing combined routes outside the island. According to ATOR, 129,672 tourists from Russia visited Bali in the first half of the year, which is 2% less than the record figure for the same period in 2025.
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that Russian authorities had identified everyone who had contacted the institute employee, and none of them showed symptoms of the disease. Christian Lindmeier also said that in Russia they are determining whether pulmonary plague was the cause of death.
Rospotrebnadzor then stated that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsk, and Shelekhov is stable. The agency also said that the commission had found no emergency situations in work with pathogenic microorganisms at the institute or dangerous pathogens in the biomaterials of the deceased employee, and Christian Lindmeier in Geneva read out Russia’s official response stating that not a single case of this dangerous disease had been registered in Irkutsk.
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