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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 6The workers who were poisoned in the canteen of the airport terminal under construction in Kamchatka are recovering, said the chief sanitary doctor of the Kamchatka Territory, Yana Gospodarik.
Earlier, the Kamchatka prosecutor's office began an investigation into the mass poisoning of workers involved in the construction of a new terminal at the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky international airport in the city of Elizovo. All people ate in a cafe at the site under construction.
«Everyone is recovering… We took samples as part of the epidemiological investigation, they were sent to laboratories in Kamchatka and Moscow. According to preliminary data, the cause of the poisoning was an unknown gastroenteritis,» said the agency's interlocutor.
She clarified that 40 people were hospitalized. Currently, 11 workers are in the hospital in the city of Elizovo, 17 are in the hospital of the AIDS Center, another 12 are in the children's infectious diseases hospital in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.