Criminal Case Opened After Suspected Norovirus Sickens 19 at Surgut College

Overview

• Russia’s Investigative Committee in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug opened a case under Article 238 on providing unsafe services following the mass illness at Surgut Polytechnic College.
• Nineteen students sought medical care, with 18 hospitalized in an infectious diseases ward in mild to moderate condition and no threat to life reported.
• The Surgut prosecutor’s office launched a formal check and coordinated sanitary-epidemiological measures to determine the source of the outbreak.
• Rospotrebnadzor specialists began an epidemiological investigation, taking samples of water, food, environmental surfaces, and biomaterials from food-service staff.
• Students were shifted to distance learning, and media had previously reported complaints about the cafeteria’s operation.