Six Ozon employees hospitalized with meningococcal infection in Yekaterinburg

Six employees of Ozon distribution warehouse in Yekaterinburg hospitalized with meningococcal infection Telegram channel Sverdlovsk Ministry of Health. The infected are in the hospital in a satisfactory condition with positive results of laboratory tests.

Earlier it became known about the death from this infection of two employees of the Ozon warehouse. In Rospotrebnadzor notedthat it is impossible to get infected with it through parcels. The agency explained that the causative agent of meningococcal disease, Neisseria meningitidis, is not resistant.

Sverdlovsk investigators will establish the causes and circumstances of the death of two people. The situation is under the control of the health authorities and Rospotrebnadzor.

Polina Khabarova, Yekaterinburg