Risk to the United Kingdom was assessed as very low

Sky News, a British television news channel, reported an assessment by the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) that risk to the United Kingdom was very low. The comments came from Chris Lewis, identified as the agency’s director of global health protection.

The article is dated October 6 at 14:40 British time, corresponding to 21:40 in Irkutsk.

This investigation has not obtained a separate original agency release. The comment concerns risk to the United Kingdom and must not be transferred to the likelihood of infection in a particular Russian hospital.