BEIJING, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - China has lifted a quarantine blockade on a remote northwestern town where pneumonic plague killed three and sickened twelve people, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
The blockade of Ziketan in Qinghai province was lifted late on Saturday as no new infections were reported for over a week, the agency said.
The plague outbreak was registered on July 30.
Russia's chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko advised Russians on Tuesday to avoid travelling to China's "problem regions."
According to the World Health Organization, pneumonic plague, which affects the lungs and can be transmitted from person to person or from animals to people, can be fatal within 24 hours of infection.
