Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he has instructed the Ministry of Public Health to monitor the plague by setting up safeguards and preparing medical supplies, after reports that a female Russian researcher died at a plague research center in Siberia, a development drawing attention from many countries. He said the instructions are issued every morning and that the situation has not yet reached the point of restricting travel from Russia, because response measures are already in place. On the demands by the P-Move group regarding the transfer of the mandate of the Institute for the Management of Land Banks, a public organization, to the Community Organizations Development Institute, or CODI, the prime minister said he has assigned Deputy Prime Minister Songsak Thongsri, who oversees the matter, to handle it. As for the opposition's plan to file a no-confidence motion this month, the prime minister did not answer questions about how the Bhumjaithai Party would prepare.