US President Donald Trump on Monday at ​the White House told reporters that ‌the United States will help Russia after a laboratory worker died at a plague research institute ​in Siberia.

Axar.az reports, citing foreign media, that Trump told reporters as he ​left the White House for a trip ⁠to Nebraska that the outbreak is a "big ​problem for Russia."

“We are looking at it very strongly. We just heard about it,” Trump said, adding that he had not spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about it but is prepared to offer US support.

It should be noted that 189 people in Russia’s Irkutsk Region have been hospitalized on suspicion of cholera.