Surrogate alcohol has killed at least 30 people in western Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.

TASS said, citing a source, that the Russian authorities were working to uncover new distribution channels for counterfeit alcohol in the Urals, where part of Sverdlovsk is located.

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Earlier this month, surrogate alcohol poisoned 64 people in western Russia’s Orenburg region, killing 32 of them.

Methanol poisoning has long plagued the country, in spite of government campaigns against counterfeit alcohol.