The Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry has said that the cholera outbreak in Mariupol (Donetsk region) is now under control.
"Everything is under control there," First Deputy Emergencies Minister Mykhailo Bolotskykh said during a telephone hotline press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
He said that Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha on Monday decided to send a working group to Mariupol to assist Health Ministry officials and the local authorities.
The chief of the Emergencies Ministry’s medical department, Petro Voliansky, said that there were three registered cases of cholera.
The results of laboratory tests on a fourth person are expected on Tuesday, he added.
Steps have already been taken to introduce a ban on catching and cooking fish, as well as to temporary close beaches in Mariupol, he said.
"The condition of the patients is currently normal," Voliansky said.
At the same time, the media reported that the diagnosis of cholera had been confirmed in four people in Mariupol and that the situation with six people who were in contact with them was currently being studied.
